Doctor pleads guilty to abortion clinic infections: "He made admissions to the Medical Practitioners Board in 1995 that he had abused fentanyl and pethidine, obtained by forging prescriptions.
He was charged by police with several counts of failing to give notice that a patient was drug-dependent and obtaining a drug of dependence by forging prescriptions.
He was convicted over the charges, received community-based orders and two months’ jail, which was wholly suspended for 18 months.
In July 1996 he was also charged with multiple counts of aiding and abetting another person to forge a prescription for drugs, and for being in possession of a drug of dependence, using a drug of dependence and introducing a drug into the body of another. He was again convicted and released on a community-based order for 18 months.
He was ordered to undergo assessment for a drug addiction, submit to medical, psychological and/or psychiatric treatment and be drug-tested as part of his conditions.
The medical board suspended him in 1996 before he returned to work at Box Hill Hospital the following year.
He tested positive for hepatitis C — a disease of which the health department must be notified — in 1997."
Friday, November 9, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
GMC suspends 'rogue surgeon' accused of unnecessary breast operations | Society | The Guardian
GMC suspends 'rogue surgeon' accused of unnecessary breast operations | Society | The Guardian: "
An alleged "rogue surgeon" has been suspended by the General Medical Council after it emerged he might have performed "unnecessary or inappropriate" breast operations on more than 1,000 women in Britain.
Ian Stuart Paterson, a breast cancer specialist who worked at NHS and private hospitals in the Midlands from 1994 until last month, is suspected of misdiagnosing at least 450 of the women with breast cancer when they were in fact healthy, and then performing unnecessary "lumpectomy" surgery."
An alleged "rogue surgeon" has been suspended by the General Medical Council after it emerged he might have performed "unnecessary or inappropriate" breast operations on more than 1,000 women in Britain.
Ian Stuart Paterson, a breast cancer specialist who worked at NHS and private hospitals in the Midlands from 1994 until last month, is suspected of misdiagnosing at least 450 of the women with breast cancer when they were in fact healthy, and then performing unnecessary "lumpectomy" surgery."
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
We need a different national conversation about ADHD
We need a different national conversation about ADHD: "That’s why Australia needs to start a broader conversation about ADHD. And if we do, we might uncover a deep contradiction in our past response.
While we laud the qualities of activity, alertness and resistance to authority in our grandparents as foundations of the ANZAC tradition, we consider these same qualities in our children as something to be treated with medication.
It leads to the question – if Ginger Meggs were around today, would he be ADHD?"
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While we laud the qualities of activity, alertness and resistance to authority in our grandparents as foundations of the ANZAC tradition, we consider these same qualities in our children as something to be treated with medication.
It leads to the question – if Ginger Meggs were around today, would he be ADHD?"
'via Blog this'
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