Doctor ‘altered’ records of suicide victim

A DOCTOR is facing a series of charges of professional misconduct after altering medical records of an asylum seeker who took his own life while a patient at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

Doctor ‘altered’ records of suicide victim

Dr Samuel McManus, 31, was working as a senior house officer in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mater as part of his GP training at the time of the death.

He is charged with seven counts of professional misconduct over claims that he had altered medical records of the patient and had failed to take “radical steps” arising out of a concern that the patient had suicidal thoughts.

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