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A doctor who was handed over to trial for issuing prescriptions to prison inmates dozens of times without medical examination was also sentenced to probation in the appeals court, similar to the first trial.
Yesterday (18th), Changwon District Court Criminal Division 3-3 (Judge Kim Ki-poong Jang Jae-yong Yoon Seong-yeol) dismissed the appeal of a 60-year-old doctor who was charged with violating the medical law and sentenced him to 6 months in prison and 2 years of probation as in the original trial. I did.
On October 18, 2018, Mr. A, who was working as the director of a hospital in Jinju, Gyeongnam, received a letter from an inmate at Jinju Prison.
The inmate asked to 'issue a prescription' through a letter, and Mr. A wrote a prescription and mailed it to the inmate without examining the inmate.
In this way, Mr. A is accused of writing prescriptions to 20 inmates 90 times by June 2019.
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According to the current medical law, the medical law stipulates that a prescription should not be issued to a patient without a doctor who directly observed or optometrist.
At the first trial held in May of last year, Mr. A was sentenced to six months in prison and two years of probation, but appealed on the grounds that the sentence in the original trial was too heavy.
Person A claimed, "I was worried that the situation would worsen due to the inmates complaining of suicide and self-harm, etc., so I issued a prescription."
The appellate court dismissed the appeal, saying, "The defendant claimed that he did not know that the prescription was illegal, but it seems that the defendant was aware of this based on the contents of the letter sent to the inmates and the statement of the defendant's investigation agency."
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