A health care professional has the legal responsibility, while treating his patients, to follow the the right procedures, and prescribe medicines and other treatments in line with the accepted professional knowledge. Similarly, in performing operations or carrying out other similar procedures the physician must possess and use adequate skills. Also, he must take other necessary precautions such as availability of adequate facilities and material for the operation and maintenance of standard of hygiene.
The actual outcome of medical treatment may be not be satisfactory, in spite of all such necessary precautions being taken. This is because medical science is not a perfect science. Most of the medical treatment and medicines are are such that these help majority of the patients in majority of the cases, but they do not guarantee 100 percent satisfactory results in all cases. Therefore the medical practitioner has no legal responsibility for unsatisfactory medical outcome in spite of satisfactory treatment.
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