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This aspect is also highlighted by Kerala High Court (K.S.Paripoornan and K.T.Thomas, JJ.) in Dr. T.T.Thomas Vs. Smt. Elisa & Ors. AIR 1987 Ker. 52, in the following terms:

Devaluation of standards in professional ethics is a dangerous trend. Its proliferation in medical professional is more calamitous than in other professional or occupational areas.
There can be few, it any, professional other than that of medicine about which it is possible to fashion a television series entitled Your Life in Their Hands- (Mason and McCall Smith Law and Medical Ethics). Failure to make a proper diagnosis sometimes may be the consequence of human error. But when diagnosis is correctly made, the imperative duty of the medical man to take adequate and prompt curative steps need not be over-emphasised, for, any inertia on his side is at his risk as to all costs and consequence. If the allegations in this case are true, this would fall within the amplitude of the above proposition.