West Bengal: Doctors demand legal safeguards while examining female patients
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Kolkata: Aggrieved by alleged charges of physical assault against a Senior Pulmonologist in the city, the medical fraternity in the city has decided to stress on certain measures while examining female patients. The doctors during a meeting held between the Association of Chest Physicians, West Bengal and Association of Physicians of India have demanded legal safeguards for medical practitioners while also asking for proper probe into the case of Dr Ganguli.
When asked on the issue of assault charges levelled against the doctors and safeguards that they take for themselves, Dr Anupam Patra, assistant professor in the chest department at NRS Medical College and Hospital, told TOI, "Despite the huge rush of patients at a government hospital, I make it a point to counsel a woman patient before clinically examining her. As explaining takes time, it delays the appointment of other patients waiting in the queue. But then what if a woman patient accuses me of molesting her?"
When asked on the issue of assault charges levelled against the doctors and safeguards that they take for themselves, Dr Anupam Patra, assistant professor in the chest department at NRS Medical College and Hospital, told TOI, "Despite the huge rush of patients at a government hospital, I make it a point to counsel a woman patient before clinically examining her. As explaining takes time, it delays the appointment of other patients waiting in the queue. But then what if a woman patient accuses me of molesting her?"
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