Doctor's Untrained Driver Performs Breast Exam

0:00On March 15, a general practitioner in Luton let his driver perform a breast exam on a new mother during a home visit last February, but he only got a warning from the General Medical Council and kept his license. The doctor did not stop the untrained driver or redo the exam himself, and it only surfaced when the driver mentioned it to a receptionist. His employer, Hartford Shire, Urgent Care, investigated, informed the patient and removed both from their roles. This case is part of 109 similar ones last year, where doctors face discipline but stayed in practice after warnings for issues like poor, judgment or patient risks. Other examples include an anesthetist who left a patient mid-surgery for eight minutes to be intimate with a nurse and a gynecologist who removed, ovaries without consent, and did unshaperone exams. The council has appealed some lenient rulings to the high court, stressing that warnings are serious last two years on records and aim to protect patients while allowing insight

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