punishment for doctors

India
January 4, 2007 12:53am CST
This is the guidelines in the year c. 350-283 BC for doctors which is prescribed in Arthshastra. Physicians undertaking medical treatment without intimating (to the government) the dangerous nature of the disease shall, if the patient dies, be punished with the first amercement. If the death of a patient under treatment is due to carelessness in the treatment, the physician shall be punished with the middle-most amercement. Growth of disease due to negligence or indifference (karmavadha) of a physician shall be regarded as assault or violence.
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