Observing that prescribing any chemo drug or medicine to any patient is the sole prerogative and expertise of the treating doctor, the Orissa High Court recently quashed criminal proceedings against a doctor, who was accused of showing undue favour to various pharmaceutical companies and prescribing costlier medicines to the patients suffering from cancer.The HC bench comprising Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra held that a doctor should not be held criminally liable for prescribing any particular drug of any pharma company unless the said drug(s) are hazardous, non-standard or substandard quality/brand, or restricted by the appropriate Authority of the Government.For more information, click on the link below:Criminal cases cannot be lodged against Doctors because they prescribed costlier drugs: HC