GP faked assault to get patient off his books: UK tribunal

The GP also claimed to have terminal blood cancer as he tried to make the patient register with a different GP, the tribunal heard.
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A GP took “increasingly desperate” actions to get a patient to change practices, including offering a bribe and faking an assault, a UK tribunal has found.

Dr Gurkirit Kalkat also paid more than $80,000 to drug rehabilitation centres in an effort to stop the patient complaining about his prescribing and medication monitoring, according to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.