Barry struck off after ruling of gross misconduct

THE High Court has struck a retired Cork doctor off the Medical Register after upholding findings that he was guilty of gross professional misconduct arising from secretly videotaping female patients and carrying out inappropriate internal examinations of them.

The eight patients involved included women who began attending James Barry as teenagers.

Barry had subjected women to unnecessary digital penetration “for his own perverse purposes”, made a pornographic video of one woman because he was “unable to control strongly ingrained perverted instincts”, bullied another woman into having her hymen broken for no medical reason and engaged in “perverted abuse” of the doctor/patient relationship, Mr Justice Peter Charleton found.