Is giving a patient a solution that led to the worsening of their condition and their subsequent death considered accidental killing?
It is up to medical experts, the physicians, to determine whether congestion in the emergency room and work pressure are valid excuses for not properly evaluating a patient's condition. There are four general points that can be conveyed to the questioner:
1. If the patient's death was due to the hospital's lack of resources, or the large number of patients and the doctor's preoccupation, then the doctor is not liable. 2. A newly graduated doctor's inability or delay in diagnosing a condition is not considered negligence or dereliction of duty warranting liability or sin if he exerted his utmost effort. 3. The default is the absolution of liability, and liability is not incurred by mere probability and doubt. Rather, certainty or prevailing assumptions supported by evidence are necessary. 4. If a doctor errs in his judgment and prescribes a medicine that causes organ damage or the death of the patient, then he is liable.
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