Doctor is neither a detective nor a curtain
between injured/sick alleged criminal and police or judiciary.
- The primary and absolutely
transparent duty of a doctor/hospital is to provide medical services to
sick and injured patient may be an alleged criminal, to save his
health/limb and life without any discrimination.
- When the medical care records are
required for judicial/police investigation, the records becomes
medicolegal in nature and the same may be required to be testified under
oath in the court of law by the treating doctor.
- The doctor should acquire the
habit of making a careful note of all the facts observed by him with exact
time and date.
- The doctor should examine the
facts which come to his knowledge in his special capacity as a medical
man, draw his conclusions logically and correctly after a detailed
consideration of the pros and cons of the case, and elaborate in the Court
that interpretation, along with the medical grounds on which it is based.
- Presumption is not proof, and
conjecture is not evidence. The Court has no special medical knowledge. It
relies on medical witness for an opinion and expects him to assist it with
his special knowledge and experience in perusal of truth.
- Presumption, assumption
hypothesis, and mere conclusion on self defined interpretation are not a
proof, and conjecture is not evidence.
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