An ICU medical officer has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct in relation to his conduct towards three female nurses who worked with him at a private hospital in NSW.
The doctor denied the particulars of the complaints (including sexual remarks and inappropriate touching of his colleagues) and described himself as friendly and “something of a joker”. Ultimately, the Tribunal accepted the evidence of the three nurses and noted that despite the doctor’s denials, he had so readily identified the complainants in his response and there was ‘significant force in the submission that the [doctor] well knew who the complainants were because of the way he had conducted himself around them’.
Case history
The complaint prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission related to three female nurses who had worked with the doctor at the hospital. In summary, Nurse A worked with the doctor between April-July 2022 and alleged that.....
