Doctor cleared of assault due to temporary insanity
She will now take her fight to a tribunal in a bid to again treat patients
A doctor detained in a hospital psychiatric unit has been cleared of assaulting one of its nurses and is now battling for the right to treat patients again.
On Friday, a Supreme Court jury took less than two hours to find Dr Arlene Taylor not guilty of assault by reason of insanity.
She had been accused of placing the nurse in a headlock and then pulling her from her room at Royal Hobart Hospital’s psychiatric unit in September 2015.
One of the psychiatric nurses told the court: “[The nurse] was unable to free herself. She was being thrown about and ended up being thrown into a locker.
