Why medical legal services are important?

When the doctors do not follow laws and ethics then the need of medical legal services arises. Doctors are ready to make a strong bill for patient .sometime doctor charged the patient according to what they afford and ready to pay.so the fee scale health insurance drove a standardization of fees.

Current practice follows a perverse from sliding factors that will charge a fix amount from every patient. There should not be any partiality among patients for charging fees. Although hospital is a public institution even then there are some responsibility and liabilities within and outside the hospital. Failure to comply creates legal action against doctor.

There are 3 types of medical negligence;

1. Contributory negligence

2. Civil negligence

3. Criminal negligence

If there is some external damage such as wrong organ transplantation or leaving instrument inside patient then doctor can be charged for criminal negligence. Deviation from hospital norms and incomplete record leads to civil negligence. Anyone can register medico legal case directly to police or patient can take help from some legal experts.