Medical Doctors work hard all through a life of struggle to qualify and cherish a position enabling them fit for service in health sector and acquire expertise to learn the are of healing. In terms of innate mental abilities, they come with higher grades than average to enter the profession. They acquire a new identity with a prefix of doctor to their name and the society expects the best from them often forgetting that they are like other humans, not infallible. The book is written by a medical doctor for doctors but in no way antagonizing the legal profession and with a special inclusiveness and understanding for the need to bring doctors under a strict vigil of prevailing laws. Nevertheless not only must a special place of consideration be given for genuine mistakes but also because of the sensitive nature of their work, they must not be under a commercial scrutiny. The clear message to my medical fraternity that stands out as the spine in the storyline of this monograph is to adopt three rule modus operandi in all their transactions with patients.

1. Ethics, Religion and Morals
   
2. Positivism and the Separation of Law, Morals, Ethics and Religion
3. Laws
4. Consent
5. Competing Laws
6. Maternity Rooms and Assisted Reproduction
7. Family Planning and Sterilisation
8. Paediatric Predicaments'
9. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
10. Clallenges Facing Psychiatric Practice
11. Assisted Reproduction
12. Medical Negligence
13. Compensation
14. The Realm of Crime
15. Malpractice and Consumer Protection Law
16. Defence and Limitations
17. Supreme Court of India and Medical Negligence
18. Pleading in the courts
19. Human Rights and Medical Law
20. Research and Ethics
21. Organ and Tissue Transplantaion
22. Last Words of Caution
23. Illustrative Case Laws in Consumer Courts
24. Declaration of Helsinki
25. The Nurembery Code