Doctor altered patient’s records

A DOCTOR who altered the medical records of an asylum seeker who took his life while a patient at the Mater Hospital in Dublin has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Dr Samuel McManus, 31, was working as a senior house doctor in the hospital’s department of psychiatry as part of his training at the time of the death.

The man, who had been admitted to the Mater on April 13, had been brought to the hospital’s emergency department the night before after being taken from the River Liffey following a suicide attempt. Within hours of admission to the psychiatric unit, he was found hanging in a shower. He died two weeks later.