GP found guilty of professional misconduct

A DOCTOR who failed to record the removal of a mole in a cancer fatality case has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

William Cashell, 37, from Rush, Co Dublin, died in May 2008, 15 months after the mole was removed.

His doctor, Dublin GP Dr Peter Peng-Cheng Ting, was found guilty of six out of eight allegations of professional misconduct in relation Mr Cashell’s care by a Medical Council fitness to practise committee.