New Delhi, Jul 5 Cautioning that baseless targeting of doctors is bound to prejudice public interest, the Delhi High Court has set aside the temporary removal of a radiologist’s name from the medical register following the death of a 21-year-old woman patient.
Justice C Hari Shankar emphasised that while callous negligence has to be strictly handled as a “scalpel cannot be wielded by a shaking hand”, striking off a doctor’s name from the Indian Medical Register not only results in the “civil death” of his career, but also has wide-reaching familial and societal ramifications.
The judge, dealing with the radiologist’s petition against a Medical Council of India (MCI) order directing the removal of his name for three months, said after the council dropped the allegation of medical negligence against him and he was not accused of any other allegation, the punishment on the count of falsification of records cannot be sustained in law.
Source :- https://www.ptinews.com/news/legal/602064.html
