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Doctor alleged not to have taken biopsies
A consultant dermatologist failed to take skin biopsies from a number of his patients and failed to diagnose certain conditions or provide adequate treatments, a Medical Council hearing has been told....
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Doctor faces more than 100 allegations
Dr John A Cotterill told a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry that while he accepted ultra violet light represented a grade one carcinogen, a short course to relieve the skin symptoms of...
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Dermatologist was ‘isolated’, hearing told
Consultant dermatologist Dr Adam Jacobus Smith might have had better patient outcomes if he had available diagnostic support and had been invited to join a local dermatologist group, a medical...
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Doctor failed to do skin biopsy when making diagnoses, hearing told
A consultant dermatologist incorrectly diagnosed at least six patients where a biopsy would have helped him to make a correct diagnosis, it was alleged at a Medical Council fitness-to-practise hearing....
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Dermatologist defends his treatment of patient
Dr Adam Jacobus Smith (65), of the Whitfield Clinic, Waterford, facing allegations in connection with his treatment of 12 patients, told a fitness-to-practise committee yesterday that in other...
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Dermatologist faces over 100 allegations
A dermatologist facing more than 100 allegations of professional misconduct and/or poor professional performance told a Medical Council fitness-to-practise committee yesterday that the risk to his...
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Doctor denies he put boy at risk with drug
Dr Adam Jacobus Smith (65), the Whitfield Clinic, Waterford, denied he put patient D (11), a boy with psoriasis, at risk when he prescribed Neotigason, a drug with possible side effects including...
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Doctor’s use of drug on boy justified, inquiry told
Adam Jacobus Smith prescribed the 11-year-old boy with the drug Neotigason to treat his psoriasis, who was identified only as Patient D. His barrister, Gabriel Gavigan, told an inquiry that Patient D’s...
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Junior doctors hit back at Reilly as strike plan looms
MANY of the 12,000 planned operations and 3,000 clinic appointments will be cancelled in public hospitals across the country on Tuesday as junior doctors take to the picket line. The row worsened as...
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