Duties Of A Doctor

Question 1

What are the direct legal duties of a doctor?

Answer 1

Examination and reporting to courts

Assess mental capacity

Assess physical fitness

Age estimation of a living person

Special duties in relation to deaths

Consent, documentation, sample collection, confirming death, issuing a death certificate

Question 2

What are the special duties in relation to death?

Answer 2

Ordering an inquest

Crime scene investigations

Autopsy

Forensic anthropology (remains)

Forensic archeology (exhume)

Cadaveric organ harvesting

Question 3

What are the components of informed consent?

Answer 3

Patient must have legal capacity to give consent

Full explanation of procedure
Risks and benefits
Alternatives available

Patient must comprehend

Patient must give consent without coercion or duress

Question 4

What are the four reasons for erasure from SLMC?

Answer 4

Convicted for crimes

Guilty of professional misconduct

Deprived of MBBS

Guilty of willfully issuing a false medical certificate under registration of births, deaths and marriage ordinance

Question 5

What are the criteria to issue a death certificate?

Answer 5

Cause of death is known

Cause of death is natural

Issuing doctor has to be the attending physician of the last illness of the deceased

Doctor has treated the deceased recently

Doctor has viewed the body