DOCTORS’ LAPSES.
CASES BEFOII MEDICAL COUNCIL. STRICT DISCIPLINARY MEASURES. Lapses from the high standard of conduct which the public associates with the medical profession rarely occur (says a London paper). When they do strict disciplinary measures are taken. A number of doctors came before the General Medical Council at its last meeting charged with various offences. One practitioner when going on his holiday was alleged to have given advanced certificates of incapacity for work to eight of his insured patients, the certificates stating that he had examined them on certain dates, although he was away on holiday on those dates. Another doctor was accused of giving a woman a certificate that she was a fit person to receive a passport, whereas he had no previous knowledge of her. A doctor who had been convicted of drunkenness had his name erased from the register. The number of offences necessitating disciplinary action forms, in relation to the number of practitioners enrolled on the register—not less than <lO,OO0 —a gratifyingly low per-, eentage.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4729, 25 July 1924, Page 1
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170DOCTORS’ LAPSES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4729, 25 July 1924, Page 1
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