CPA Act intended to protect the public and businesses from unfair methods of competition and from deceptive or misleading practices during the course
of any trade or commerce.
Definitions of “unfair” and “deceptive” were varied and often vague.
Patients are not consumers.
Doctors are not consumable providers.
Medical treatment is neither a trade nor commercial activity but it is recognised and
termed by our Apex court as noble profession.
Patients getting treatment for their physical,emotional and psychic ailments
and approach the doctors to get management of their diseases.
Management of the disease and the patient, is not a 'single transaction' activity
but is a series of lengthy processes and its a team work involving various faculties of skills
and various types of inputs.
Even though the first and fundamental contact person in this management
algorithm is -doctor, the management of the disease dynamics involves and includes
the inputs of physician, laboratory,pharmacist,drugs and the patient himself.
Medical errors and Medical negligence are two separate terms and it needs
rigorous scrutiny to separate the two .
we agree that deception and unfair practices are prevalent not only in
medical but in all professions.
we need protection not only from medical but from all type of professional discrepancies.
we have several professions- teaching,preaching,social service,politicising,accounting,
banking & financing, computing,engineering,legal,etc...
Its dis-heartening that except medical profession , no other profession has been regulated
by any act or agency!
Remember,only The medical service has been well registered, monitored and
scrutinized by medical jurisdiction in the name and style as "Medical Council",
which comprises of essential medical knowledgeable persons.
only the medical profession has ethics monitoring regulation.
no other profession has such arrangement to upkeep the ethics.
The medical profession and hospitals have been regulated and checked by number
of acts -200 acts -like-PCPNDT,MTP,ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION,
anti-quackery,Etc...
So, there is no need of CPA for medical profession.
we should remember,Medical negligence is not a planned offence.
Its unexpected accident.
we can't say,that offending doctors should not be brought to book, they must be and speedily…
but a general penalizing rule may put too much pressure on doctors and affect their performance,
besides encouraging false litigations.
of any trade or commerce.
Definitions of “unfair” and “deceptive” were varied and often vague.
Patients are not consumers.
Doctors are not consumable providers.
Medical treatment is neither a trade nor commercial activity but it is recognised and
termed by our Apex court as noble profession.
Patients getting treatment for their physical,emotional and psychic ailments
and approach the doctors to get management of their diseases.
Management of the disease and the patient, is not a 'single transaction' activity
but is a series of lengthy processes and its a team work involving various faculties of skills
and various types of inputs.
Even though the first and fundamental contact person in this management
algorithm is -doctor, the management of the disease dynamics involves and includes
the inputs of physician, laboratory,pharmacist,drugs and the patient himself.
Medical errors and Medical negligence are two separate terms and it needs
rigorous scrutiny to separate the two .
we agree that deception and unfair practices are prevalent not only in
medical but in all professions.
we need protection not only from medical but from all type of professional discrepancies.
we have several professions- teaching,preaching,social service,politicising,accounting,
banking & financing, computing,engineering,legal,etc...
Its dis-heartening that except medical profession , no other profession has been regulated
by any act or agency!
Remember,only The medical service has been well registered, monitored and
scrutinized by medical jurisdiction in the name and style as "Medical Council",
which comprises of essential medical knowledgeable persons.
only the medical profession has ethics monitoring regulation.
no other profession has such arrangement to upkeep the ethics.
The medical profession and hospitals have been regulated and checked by number
of acts -200 acts -like-PCPNDT,MTP,ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION,
anti-quackery,Etc...
So, there is no need of CPA for medical profession.
we should remember,Medical negligence is not a planned offence.
Its unexpected accident.
we can't say,that offending doctors should not be brought to book, they must be and speedily…
but a general penalizing rule may put too much pressure on doctors and affect their performance,
besides encouraging false litigations.
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