Doctor remorseful after slapping elderly ICU patient
The slap was delivered in a 'highly stressful' situation, but without malice: tribunal
A doctor who slapped a delirious 82-year-old ICU patient in the face hard enough to cause petechial haemorrhage has been reprimanded for professional misconduct.
The elderly woman had been recovering from surgery in the ICU of a Townsville hospital, and was disoriented, confused and at times screaming out over the evening of 4 August, 2014.
