G.P.s want public hearing
PA Auckland The Medical Practitioners’ Disciplinary Committee wants to hold hearings in public on professional misconduct by doctors. The committee said yesterday it had prepared a submission to the Government asking that all hearings be public unless patients request anonymity. The committee’s chairman, Dr Dean Williams, said doctors’ rights were much less important than patients’ rights, and public hearings were needed to allay patients’ fears. Many patients now wanted cases made public but the law dictated, that they must be private. This would allay anxieties that doctors hide one another’s errors. Maximum fines imposed on doctors should be increased from $lOOO to $lO,OOO, he said. Doctors accused of medical misconduct or malpractice did not have their names published until a year ago, but can request anonymity.
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