Medical Jurisprudence — Flashcards

Flashcard 61: Issuing or signing a false certificate is covered under Section _____ of the BNS or IPC 197

Answer: 234

Flashcard 62: Lying at the court could come under which Section of the IPC?_____

Answer: Section 191

Flashcard 63: _____ negligence occurs when both the doctor and patient are negligent

Answer: Contributory

Flashcard 64: The punishment for the death of a patient by a spurious drug is _____

Answer: imprisonment for life.

Flashcard 65: Cr PC _____ deals with the Postponement of capital punishment of pregnant women.

Answer: 416

Flashcard 66: _____ (defence against negligence) refers to an adverse outcome that could not have been anticipated despite reasonable care

Answer: Therapeutic misadventure

Flashcard 67: Section _____ IPC deals with causing death by negligence

Answer: 304A

Flashcard 68: Section _____ of IPC deals with Omission to give notice/information to public servant by person legally bound to give it

Answer: 176

Flashcard 69: Section _____ of IPC: Obscene acts and songs (Exhibitionism)

Answer: 294

Flashcard 70: Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder is defined under Section _____ of the BNS (or Section 304 IPC).

Answer: 104

Extra: Section 304 IPC (Culpable homicide not amounting to murder) has been replaced by Section 104 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Note: Section 303 IPC (Punishment for murder by a life convict) was struck down by the Supreme Court in Mithu v. State of Punjab and has no direct equivalent in the BNS. Section 302 IPC (Murder) is now Section 103 BNS.