AMMAN — Experts,
doctors, and lawyers have identified a disturbing ‘phenomenon’ in the Kingdom:
false medical reports, pursued by university students and others trying to
provide false information for a variety of reasons.
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University students, for instance, have taken to falsifying their medical reports in order
to justify absences from school.
"There
are some clinics that are specialized in giving false medical reports for
students,” said Isaac Tawil, a doctor, in an interview with
Jordan News. “These
clinics are known to most students and they offer these reports for prices that
are affordable for students."
"When a
student knows about such a clinic, they would go and tell their group of
friends about it,” Tawil explained. “And through word of mouth, these clinics
have become known to most of the students who actually like the idea of obtaining
medical reports to escape lectures."
"That
is not just the clinics or doctors' fault,” he added. “It is the students'
fault because they encourage these clinics to keep doing what they are doing.
Students find it an easy way to escape lectures, but they do not know how their
parents struggle to pay the university fees.”
"Our
main problem is that we only care about money; these medical facilities do this
for money but they do not know that our safety is a priority; these clinics may
get those students into serious troubles," he said.
"This
is a major issue that unfortunately cannot be regulated easily,” said Adnan
Abbas, director of the
National Center for Forensic Medicine, in an interview
with
Jordan News.
"Universities
themselves should endorse certain accredited medical centers to exclusively
issue authentic medical reports,” Abbas suggested.
Alternatively,
attorney Lamees Sulaiman told
Jordan News that she has encountered women who
produce false medical reports in order to pursue divorce. "As an attorney,
I have noticed some women that injured themselves just to falsely accuse their
husbands of something they did not do,” she said.
"They
assume that in this way they can get divorced easily but unfortunately they are
wrong; nowadays procedures become more complicated, and we have forensic
medicine,” she said. “If it is found out that they are falsification medical
reports they would get in serious trouble and may end up in jail."
"Falsification
of medical reports, from my experience as an attorney, has now become a serious
phenomenon,” said lawyer Issam Haddad.
"What
makes things more complicated that there is nothing wrong in examining a
patient,” Haddad said. “That is the doctor's role and he is not doing something
wrong. But the point is some doctors write in their medical reports fake
information, which is opposite to the truth."
"We
have to activate the Medical Liability act in a more serious way if we want to
get rid of such illegal acts.”
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