6.3 Running an open shop (Dispensing of Drugs and Appliances by Physicians): - A physician should not run an open shop for sale of medicine for dispensing prescriptions prescribed by doctors other than himself or for sale of medical or surgical appliances. It is not unethical for a physician to prescribe or supply drugs, remedies or appliances as long as there is no exploitation of the patient.
Drugs prescribed by a physician or brought from the market for a patient should explicitly state the proprietary formulae as well as generic name of the drug. (If the MCI wants the doctors to believe that an "Open shop" is a shop meant to sell drugs, then the MCI will surely direct us "that the doctors should not send "blackmail" and for them "blackmail" will be letters written in black paper.) The above Medical Ethics Regulation is a distorted version of Item 5 in Schedule K of Drug Rules and…
