GPs fined for letting unregistered doc treat patients alone
The IMG was authorised only for a clinical observership but was allowed to treat two patients while his regular supervising GP was away.
Two GPs have lost their legal appeal against a conviction for allowing an IMG, who was only authorised to observe consults, to pass himself off as a registered doctor following a supervision slip-up.
The husband-and-wife GPs were ordered to pay $6000 by the Beenleigh Magistrate’s Court in February last year for “recklessly holding out” that the Malaysian medical graduate was a registered doctor.
