1Associate professor, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Veer Chandra Singh Garwahi Government Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Srinagar, Pauri Garwahal
2Professor and HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram
3Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram
4Post Graduate Student, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sewagram
*Corresponding author: Pushpendra Singh Associate Professor, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Veer Chandra Singh Garwahi Government Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Srinagar, Pauri Garwahal
Online published on 27 July, 2017.
The relationship maintained between a doctor as a savior and a patient with a great need of sympathy, kindness and health guidance-is an age old faithful understanding. As on today, the society has been changed enormously. The attitude of doctors has been turned mostly towards business and the behavior of a patient has become maximally unfaithful. Today also the relation between the doctor and the patient exists but it is more like a relation between a consumer and a trader which is often devoid of any dedication and lovely bond that used to be seen long back as our forefathers remember. Though the problem has come up vigorously very recently, but the work on this relation was started in 1951. TALCOTT PARSONS was the first social scientist to theorize the doctor-patient relation.1
The landmark case IMA Vs V P Shanta brought the medical professionals within the ambit of “service” as defined in the CPA 1986.2
Physicians, Commercialization, Consent, Media
