Obstetrician guilty of professional misconduct

A consultant obstetrician who failed to send a patient with a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy for treatment has been found guilty of professional misconduct.

Dr Patrick (Gerry) Rafferty, of Mount Carmel private hospital, Dublin 14 was found guilty of five separate allegations of professional misconduct by a Medical Council inquiry in relation to his treatment of two women.

One of the women had to be rushed to hospital for emergency surgery to remove her fallopian tube.