A medical doctor has been found guilty on four charges of prescribing excessive drugs to his patients and for not giving them counselling or referring them for psychiatric evaluation for their drug dependency.
A disciplinary inquiry of the Singapore Medical Council says that given the case histories of the patients and their prolonged use of benzodiazepines, Dr Lim Tien Chiar should not have prescribed further use of these dependency-forming drugs.
Dr Lim was also convicted on another charge of failing to exercise adequate supervision over the prescribing practices of the doctors in his clinic.
Dr Lim was the licensee and manager of Jurong Clinic and Dental Surgery in Jurong West Street 51.
Under the Private Hospitals and Medical Clinics Regulations, he was obliged to supervise the work of the doctors employed.
However, he left the running of the clinic and the ordering of these drugs to his locum doctor, did not review the medical and dispensing records of the clinic and the patients and delegated his responsibility via private agreements with his doctors.
For the offences committed, Dr Lim was suspended for three months and fined $2,000.
He was also censured and ordered to give an undertaking to the Medical Council not to repeat the acts. Labels: No Prescription, Online Pharmacy, Prescription Drugs
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