DR. ADAMS OFF REGISTER

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28447, 29 November 1957, Page 22

DR. ADAMS OFF REGISTER

British Medical Council Decision (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 27. The General Medical Council today struck Dr. John Bodkin Adams, an Eastbourne physician, off the register of doctors. This means that he will no longer be allowed to practise as a physician. The decision was taken after the council’s disciplinary committee had examined the convictions against .Dr. Adams for forging prescriptions, false representation, and attempting to conceal drugs. He was fined £2400 on these counts last July. Earlier this year, Dr. Adams, aged 58, was acquitted on a charge of murdering a patient after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey. Dr. Adams appeared before today’s meeting of the medical profession’s disciplinary committee. His lawyer pleaded that since he was first arrested a year ago he had never been free of trials of some kind. Speaking of the strain on him, the lawyer said that Dr. Adams had been in custody 111 days, and newspapers before the murder trial had published stories and headlines about mass murders. The lawyer said that Dr. Adams was looking after 100 or so loyal patients who had stuck to him through everything, and still wanted him to be their doctor. Dr. Adams has 28 days in which to lodge an appeal against the Medical Council’s decision.