Abstract
Medical negligence has always been a topic of debate in medical profession. In Medical Negligence cases, while the doctors and the hospitals plead their innocence, the relatives see the negligence as the cause of the patient's damage or death. Sometimes the things take an ugly turn and the relatives resort to violence with the doctors and medical staff. This study was undertaken to analyze the reasons of allegation of Medical Negligence against treating Doctor/Hospital by the relatives after death of the patient and the preventive steps to curb the menace. A total of twenty Medicolegal Autopsy Cases with alleged Medical Negligence were studied. The allegations were found more in age groups comprising of children and adolescent (50%) with a declining trend with increase in age. There was no sex predominance (M: F=1: 1).
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