Cork GP to face sanctions after ruling

A GP who failed to recognise that a new mother was suffering from a potentially fatal inflammation of her uterus was yesterday found guilty of poor professional performance.

The disciplinary hearing at the Medical Council in Dublin found that Dr Saleem Sharif, aged 57, from Ballyphehane, Cork, failed to carry out an examination of Alison Hunter Hickey, or arrange for investigations when Ms Hickey visited him at the GP Now Clinic in Sandyford, Dublin, on October 2014, where he was working as a locum GP.

Legal counsel for the Medical Council, Eoghan O’Sullivan, said yesterday that Dr Sharif displayed a “very worrying” lack of clinical judgement.