Medical negligence

Traditionally, medical negligence has referred to incompetent doctors who have failed to provide good quality medical care to their patients. I feel that a much bigger problem which has been negelected so far is that of patient negligence. Even in this day and age, when patient educational materials are so plentiful and so easily available, it's tragic to see such few patients making use of them. Most patients are still happy to leave everything upto their doctor, and they rarely bother to verify the accuracy of what they are told. When something goes wrong, it's these same patients who then blame the doctor, without realising that they are as much to blame because they have not bothered to do their own homework. If information therapy is the best medicine, then not taking your medicine means you are also partly responsible for a bad outcome !