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Taking a major step toward curbing the ongoing instances of violence against doctors, NMC in it’s  draft ethics guidelines for first time has implied that the doctors can now refuse to treat “abusive, controlling and valiant violent patient or relatives”. 

However, in case the doctor turns down such patients, they should be referred for further treatment elsewhere and the RMP will have to document and report the unruly behaviour, NMC has further clarified  in the recently released Draft Registered Medical Practitioners (Professional Conduct) Regulations 2022.   

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