Consequences of professional misconduct Consequences for professional misconduct by medical practitioner can be broadly categorized into three categories:- Criminal Liability Civil Liabilities Disciplinary Action Criminal Liability for professional misconduct by doctors Criminal liability for medical negligence may be imposed on one of the two findings:- the doctor was not possessed of the requisite skill which he professed to have possessed, or, he did not exercise, with reasonable competence in the given case, the skill which he did possess. For imposing criminal liability a very high degree of negligence is required to be proved . Criminal liability is imposed generally in cases of medical negligence as per the provisions of the Indian Penal Code. Section 304A (Death due to negligence) , section 337 (causing hurt) and section 338 (causing grievous hurt) are often applied to deal with cases of medical negligence. Prenatal sex determination except for the purpose of diagnosing abn
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