Doctor felt threat from junior colleague

A consultant oncologist has told how she felt threatened by a doctor under her supervision on two separate occasions when she sought to discuss the junior registrar’s medical practices at the Midwestern Cancer Centre at University Hospital Limerick.

Linda Coate has given evidence in a Medical Council fitness to practice inquiry into Saqib Ahmed.

He faces eight allegations of professional misconduct and/or poor professional performance arising from his period at the hospital between July and November 2012, when he was placed on administrative leave.