Doctors are not infallible


IN an increasingly litigious society, it would be foolhardy for any doctor to claim infallibility.

As a famous Malay proverb goes, “No matter how good a squirrel is at jumping, it will still fall occasionally.” Therefore, George Bernard Shaw’s quote in The Star of June 14, penned in 1906, no longer holds true. The question is whether society at large accepts that there is a limit to what doctors can do.

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