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Anaesthetist faces 18 charges of serious professional misconduct

BMJ 2000; 321 doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7266.918 (Published 14 October 2000)
Cite this as: BMJ 2000;321:918.1

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  1. Clare Dyer, legal correspondent
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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 …

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