8.3 Breach of Medical Ethics and Legal Remedies for Medical Negligence inNepal

1. The ethics' code: the Nepal Medical Council's code (the registration's condition — the ethics' disciplinary force); the breaches' catalogue (the confidentiality's violation; the advertising's excess; the fee's abuse; the incompetence; the sexual misconduct — the patient's exploitation); the Council's disciplinary powers (the warning-to-deregistration's ladder — the licence's life).2. The remedies' menu (the Nepal frame): - The Council's complaint (the professional route — the disciplinary). - The civil suit (the compensation — the tort's claim in the courts; the consumer route's debate (the Consumer Protection Act's application to the medical services — the services' inclusion questions)). - The criminal route (the reckless-death's prosecution — the police-and-court). - The constitutional route (the health right's (Art 35) writ faces — the emergency-denial cases' line (the SC's treatment-refusal jurisprudence — the "no-deposit-no-treatment" cases' famous line)).3. The Nepal Medical Council Act 2020 B.S. (1964) — the profession's statute (the registration-and-licensing; the standards; the disciplinary machinery); the Council's role (the malpractice's investigation; the ethics' enforcement). Verify every citation yourself — do not rely on this page alone. Case names, numbers, dates and the decisions attributed to them have been removed from these notes or are unverified. Before you quote anything in an exam, a moot or a filing, check it in the primary source: the Nepal Kanoon Patrika report, the statute, the prescribed textbook and…