Hiring/Renting: Responsibility of a Doctor for Harm Caused by Medicine

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Ayatullah Sistani

Ruling 2215

If a doctor gives some medicine to a patient, or he recommends some medicine for him, and the patient suffers harm or dies as a result of taking the medicine, the doctor is responsible even though he was not negligent in trying to cure the patient.

-Ayatullah Sistani, Practical Laws of Islam, Hiring/Renting (Ijarah)