[Speaker 1] So if the patient has been recommended physiotherapy and patient has not followed it, or patient has not been recommended, basically the doctor forgets to recommend physiotherapy, can the doctor be sued for it?
[Speaker 2] Very good Dheeraj. There's two part in this particular question. One, if at all recommendation is done, or second, if not done. Now see, everything comes under the due care. Post surgery, post-operative care definitely the part and parcel of the treatment itself. So recommendation is required, which is a standard protocol of treatment. Here, if you have recommended and patient has not followed, then it is a contributory negligence on the part of a patient. It is a duty of patient to follow the advice of a doctor. So we can defend ourselves. We are in a good position. But if recommendation is not done, then definitely question is going to be there of omission. And there we become liable. Like I still remember a Mumbai hospital case where dialysis was not recommended in discharge card in chronic renal failure patient, that patient died because of that and the case got filed. Only on discharge card since it was missed, liability was gone on hospital. So recommendation is required as a part of standard protocol of treatment. Patient follows, well and good. Thereafter, patient is going to get benefit of that. Not followed, patient is going to be liable as a contributory negligence. But liability can be safeguarded if we recommended properly and physiotherapy is done.