‘Bruising and unpleasant’: Dr Nick Carr speaks to AusDoc about his prosecution for VAD paperwork error
He worries other doctors will be disincentivised to provide VAD.
“I would almost forget about the investigation, and then another email would come through, and I would read the heading; my blood pressure would drop to the floor, and I would freeze, with the horrible gut-sinking realisation that, yes, this is still going on.”
Dr Nick Carr is talking about the emails he received from AHPRA updating him on its investigation into his paperwork bungle.
In 2020, he became the subject of a formal notification about his role helping terminally ill patients access Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) scheme.
As AusDoc readers will know, last month, he was found guilty of professional misconduct. The charge sounds serious; and it is. But it all related to one of the forms he had to fill in.
