GP censured on heart attack treatment

A DOCTOR who worked in an out-of-hours GP service in the south has been found guilty of poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry.

Dr Eugene Erasmus, 71, a South African physician, was the doctor on call at SouthDoc in Cork over the May bank holiday weekend last year when British tourist James Taylor attended its Skibbereen centre.

Mr Taylor, 62, from Nottingham, was on holiday in Glandore, Co Cork, when he became ill. He telephoned SouthDoc in the early hours of Monday, May 4, complaining of chest pains and saying he had had a heart attack in 1997.