Aires Rodrigues <[email protected]> wrote: [1] It is for the government probe to decide whether the 16 year old Raveena Rodrigues died due to medical negligence.
[2] The policy of barring Government doctors from private practice will have to be reviewed by the government. Goa Medical College may lose some of its talented doctors if this rule is enforced. [3] If our Advocate General who is India’s highest paid AG and other Government advocates can have their private practice why can doctors not be allowed to attend to private patients after office hours? COMMENT: #3 (supra) unfortunately introduces a 'personal axe to grind' in it, and in the process, dilutes a very good point. #2 is the way forward. #1 is nonsense. Medical Negligence is a routine matter which courts (all over the world) are called upon to decide. There are fixed criteria which courts observe in the determination of medical negligence. There is enough of case law from courts in Indian and other 'common law' jurisdictions on the topic of medical negligence. Perhaps, drama is what we enjoy. That could be the only reason for this call for a "government probe'. jc * * * How were the 1950s, East African Goans and British Overseas Citizenship linked? Which Kenyan-Goan was one of the world fastest sprinters in the 1960s? What did the 1878 London-Lisbon treaty mean to Goa? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
