Banned doctor alleged to have infected patient with hep B while working under alias
A banned doctor has been accused of infecting a patient with hepatitis B after continuing to work at a Sydney cosmetic clinic under a different…
Tag: Tribunals
Another emergency suspension overturned at tribunal — ‘not in the public interest’
A tribunal has overturned another doctor’s emergency suspension, saying it is in the public interest for competent doctors to keep practising if appropriate. The doctor,…
GP speaks of distress over patient’s angry demand she change diagnosis made 13 years earlier
A GP has ended up before a tribunal over a woman’s mental health diagnosis she had made 13 years earlier. In a case that highlights…
Tribunal fines doctor $10,000 for writing fake sick notes for person on bail
A doctor has been fined $10,000 for writing five false medical certificates for an acquaintance who had failed to attend a police station in line…
GP faked assault to get patient off his books: UK tribunal
A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has…
Pharmacist used dead patients’ details to defraud $2 million from PBS: tribunal
A pharmacist who “brazenly” defrauded $1.94 million from the PBS by submitting fake claims, some using dead patients’ details, will not be allowed to apply…
GP denies allegations he endorsed genocide and compared pandemic orders to Nazism
GP Dr Jereth Kok has admitted writing “inappropriate” social media posts that demeaned abortion doctors, during a five-hour examination before the Victorian Civil and Administrative…
GP who called abortion doctors ‘contract killers’ faces tribunal after five-year emergency suspension
“This is probably one of the most important cases that’s ever been put in this tribunal in the last 30 years. “It goes to the…
Medical board wrongly used registration renewal to impose conditions on doctor, tribunal finds
A doctor has won a two-year battle to practise again after a tribunal found that the Medical Board of Australia wrongly attempted to impose conditions…
Doctors suspended after ‘complete dereliction’ of IMG supervision rules
An IMG has been suspended, along with two other doctors, after she was allowed to treat patients unsupervised while on provisional registration — even after…
