GP cleared of brushing ‘protruding’ belly against patient

But the medicolegal assessor was reprimanded for inappropriate behaviour
Medicolegal

A GP working as a medicolegal assessor has been cleared of brushing his ‘protruding’ belly against a patient he was examining for a worker’s compensation report.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the GP did not brush his protruding abdomen, which was due to an enlarged liver, “inadvertently or in any other way”.