BMJ 2000;321:918 ( 14 October )

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Anaesthetist faces 18 charges of serious professional misconduct

Clare Dyer, legal correspondent, BMJ
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An anaesthetist working in Britain could be banned from practice this month if found guilty of charges of serious professional misconduct over incidents in which a 10 year old boy died during a tooth extraction and a patient undergoing a caesarean section writhed in pain because she was not fully anaesthetised.

The General Medical Council in London was this week hearing evidence in the case of John Evans-Appiah, who came to Britain from Ghana in 1973 after qualifying in Ukraine.

Dr Evans-Appiah, from Leyton, east London, has had 42 jobs since his arrival in Britain. In 1993 he was dismissed from Falkirk Royal Infirmary for temporarily paralysing a patient by giving her the wrong drugs.

In 1998, when the two incidents that gave rise to the GMC charges occurred, he was travelling around Britain working for locum agencies.

In October 1998 he was asked to anaesthetise Darren Denholm, aged 10, who was having a tooth extracted at . . . [Full text of this article]
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