Madras HC observes doctors cannot adopt pick-and-choose attitude while treating patients

The Madras High Court recently observed that doctors cannot adopt a pick-and-choose attitude while treating patients and, poor patients receiving treatment from government-run hospitals cannot be treated differently.

The HC bench comprising Justice S.M. Subramaniam made these observations while considering the pleas challenging the proceedings of the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine appointing the petitioner Doctors as Assistant Surgeon (Specialists) based on the bond agreement under Rule 19(1) of the Tamil Government Servants (Conditions of Services) Act, 2016.