GP registrar pressured grieving widow to cry on video to prove his empathy: UK tribunal
Dr Christopher Ogbonna said he was 'deeply stressed' about potentially failing to qualify as a GP.
A trainee GP who pressured a recently bereaved widow to cry so he could display his empathy skills for an assessment video has been suspended for three months.
The patient had originally been booked into see a different GP at the practice, the UK Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service heard.
Aware the patient had recently lost her husband, Dr Christopher Ogbonna convinced her to see him instead and allow the consultation to be taped to help him in his training.
Before the consultation in July 2022, he contacted the patient to “rehearse” the answers he wanted her to give to his questions.
