Published: February 19, 2019
As healthcare professionals we have a duty to report if we become concerned about a colleague’s misconduct
A consultant doctor in a different speciality to mine came to see me as a patient in New Zealand’s public health system. She needed an operation, and wanted me, a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist, to do the surgery for her. “After all, there’s got to be some benefit to working here,” she said. When I told her I wouldn’t be able to honour her request, she gave me her personal doctor blacklist. The doctors on it were the subjects of repeated whisperings about their practice. She did not want those doctors, or any of the registrars we supervised, anywhere near her.
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