It is a common tendency among Doctors tend to allow their names and signatures to be used by labs, ultrasound centers and imaging centers for a fee, where these labs or radiological centres put a stamp of a doctor or digital sign for any investigations carried out. Doctors also give these digital sign or stamp very often to their corporate hospital desk or in Government set up hospitals or medical colleges without charging anything where doctor's stamp is used by resident doctors or nursing staff for ordering some investigations or giving fitness or sickness certificate or on discharge certificate or during referral of patient to other place or for ordering something or even for Death certificates.
They pre-sign lab reports, fitness certificates, sickness certificates without actually having seen the patient or the specimen to be tested, leaving the data to be filled in by another…
