Please do not prescribe medicine to a patient over phone or mobile without examining a patient without diagnosis or any alteration in medicine in examined and diagnosed patient too as it may be a gross negligence as of culpable homicide not amounting to murder to be booked under IPC 304 where life imprisonment and un bailable sentence may be imposed by a court. Observing that prescribing medicines to patients without diagnosis amounted to culpable negligence, the Bombay High Court has turned down the anticipatory bail pleas of a doctor couple booked for the death of a woman patient. Learned Justice made the observations on Wednesday while hearing anticipatory bail pleas filed by two gynaecologists.
They were booked by Ratnagiri police under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after their patient died this year. Cops said the woman was…
