LEGAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL CARE: 2020

Apart from his routine and usual “clinical” duty, a doctor come across certain ‘Medico-legal’ issues at one time or the other during the practice of his profession. Every doctor under law bound by a contract to serve its patient and cannot refuse treatment. Every doctor has to fulfill certain legal requirements in service by compulsion or voluntarily as defined under law. 

A good working knowledge of the law relating to medical care, coupled with a thorough understanding of the correct method of dealing with legal issues helps one to build confidence over riding the fear of LAW. The Legal aspects of medical practice broadly covers two areas of medical laws:

1. Medical Jurisprudence : It deals with legal aspects of medical practice.
2. Forensic Medicine : It deals with medical aspects of law.

SOURCES OF LAWS:

PRIMARY SOURCES:

• Laws passed by the Parliament or the State Legislative
• Ordinances passed by the President and the Governor
• Subordinate legislation: Rules and regulations made by the executive through the power delegated to them by the Acts.  

2.    SECONDARY SOURCES:

• Judgments of the Supreme Court, High Court and Tribunals (The ratio decedendi  is a binding precedent)
• Judicial legislation
• Judgment of Foreign Courts
• International Treaty

The objective of this presentation is to make you aware of issues which are generally confronted during medical practice. Hope this learning will help you in day to day practice as a hospital administrator . 

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News Fast-Track :: Hospiad

This initiative is to archive the great news snippets from the web which are related to the Hospital Administration. There are many achievements happening in many corners of the world as well there are many issues deserving a good discussion.

This would be an simple effort to archive all the relevant information in one place, All the post will be labeled News-Track for easy tracking.

Dated: 30th July 2011, Saturday:

1. India's Public Heath Crisis: Government Responds:

• Governments acknowledgement in this regard is the first step in bridging the gap. Only 1% of the GDP is spent on the public health, and plans to double it to 2% in the Five year plan starting from 2012.
• Poor State of Public Health  out lined in 2005 gave birth to National Rural Health Mission (NHRM). As most of the Indian population still resides in the rural areas.
• Developing world problems such as infant mortality, malaria & tuberculosis is now accompanied with rich-man's disease such as diabetes and heart disease.
• Public Health as it falls under the State, situations varies from state to state from good (in Gujrat) to Bad (in UP), main reasons being corruption, misuse of funds, and many other irregularity. 
• Will monetizing the Child birth in the Hospital work in long run, when the infrastructure to handle patients is not in place.
2.  Ailing Health of Growing Nation

India supplies doctors to hospitals the world over. Within India itself, a thriving private health-care industry; serving a growing middle class and the wealthy; is a byproduct of the nation's economic ascendancy.


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Operation Theatre (OT) Services :: HospiAd

Art of surgery is created by the hands of a surgeon. These hands are of no use, if there is inadequate operation facilities. All surgical departments need a well equipped Operation Theater (OT) to work with.The surgical departments save the precious life through operation. About fifty percent of hospital beds are allocated to surgical departments signifying its importance.

With the introduction of super specialty services and gradual development in operation technologies , the designing of operation theatre is becoming more sophisticated and complex in nature.

This has warranted an intelligent planning and skillful organizing of a modern OT so as to meet the modern demand for surgery as well as, matching the expectations of the surgeons.

Therefore planning an OT has become more crucial. Certain aspects like clean environment, adequate safety of staff and patients, controlling of infection, are issues to be considered at the stage of planning itself.The above factors reflects the importance of organizing an operation theatre, depicting the technical and conceptual skills of a hospital Administrator.

The presentation on 'Planning and Organization of Operation Department' below discusses certain important issues which should be considered while planning and management of Operation Theater.