The President of the High Court has welcomed a decision by the Medical Council to put in place a system to check the disciplinary records of doctors seeking to be allowed to work in Ireland.

The president of the High Court has struck off a radiographer after being satisfied she is “simply a danger to the public” due to her “substandard” knowledge of the basics of radiography and lack of insight into the dangers of that.

A radiologist who made serious errors in a number of his CT scan reports was last night found guilty of poor professional performance at a medical inquiry in Dublin. The matter of sanctions against him will be determined at a later date.

An expert in reproductive medicine has described the judgement call a doctor under review faced when conducting the surgery in question. One must “hope you make the right decision”, the fitness-to-practise inquiry at the Medical Council heard yesterday.

A woman has described waking up from an operation to find both her fallopian tubes had been “clipped” without her consent.

A doctor’s use of a drug on a child, which has a known risk of stunting growth, was justified because of the “exceptional circumstances” involved, an inquiry has heard.

A top paediatric consultant who delegated a child’s operation to another surgeon told a medical inquiry into why the child had the wrong surgery first that he would have operated on her himself if he had known she was a private patient.

A ROMANIAN doctor who was unable to take a patient’s pulse has been found guilty of poor professional performance following a fitness to practise inquiry by the Medical Council.

A LITHUANIAN doctor accused of professional misconduct and poor professional performance stormed out of an Irish Medical Council (IMC) hearing in Dublin yesterday.

AN IRISH Medical Council (IMC) fitness to practice committee has decided to remove a radiologist from the doctors’ register for failing to co-operate with an inquiry into the quality of her work in Britain.

A PALESTINIAN doctor working in Ireland has admitted that he lied about his medical experience to secure a job with the Health Service Executive.

A SURGEON, who has agreed to be censured by the Medical Council for failing to provide a medical report for a teenage road traffic victim, said his patients were his primary concern, not the interests of the legal profession.