Doctor who failed to diagnose testicular torsion in Cork teen found guilty of professional misconduct

A Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry heard locum doctor's failure to provide appropriate care resulted in boy losing a testicle and 24-day-old baby with meningitis could have died over her failure to refer him to hospital

The locum GP was working at a SouthDoc clinic in Midleton. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A locum GP who was working at a SouthDoc clinic in Cork has been found guilty of professional misconduct and poor professional performance over her failure to recognise the serious conditions of two very ill children and to refer them to hospital.

A medical fitness-to-practise inquiry of the Medical Council heard the failure by Dr Alicia Marton Martinez to provide appropriate care had devastating consequences for one patient, who required emergency surgery to remove a testicle.