Doctor cleared in first public misconduct case

A DOCTOR was yesterday cleared of two charges of serious professional misconduct in the first medical council fitness to practice case heard in public.

Dr Ross Ardill was before the three-strong committee to answer charges related to his alleged use of “insensitive and inappropriate” language to check whether a female patient — Alma McQuade, a Dublin art therapist whose previous GP was in Ranelagh — had engaged in sexual relations and whether this might be linked to her illness.

Dr Ardill, 42, is the founder and medical director of the Custom House Square Medical Centre near the IFSC in Dublin.