The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has suspended a Nashik-based pathologist for signing reports at multiple laboratories despite being a full-time faculty at a dental college. The MMC said that Dr. Sanjay Shinde was attached to multiple laboratories within a 3s0 to 160 km radius. “In this case, the pathologist has neither supervised or interpreted the findings in reports on which his signatures were present”, said Dr. Utture. Dr. Parsad Kulkarni, executive member of the Maharashtra Association of Practicing Pathologists and Microbiologists (MAPPM), said this was a clear case of a pathologist renting his signature to numerous labs. “We found that Dr. Shinde was attached to nearly 25 laboratories.

Source: The Hindu April 30, 2019 19:07 UTC