DOCTORS FINED

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23258, 20 July 1945, Page 5

DOCTORS FINED

Excessive Charges And ■ Attendances <Rec. 10.5 p.m.) PERTH. July 19. For unnecessary attendances and excessive fees charged under the j Workers’ Compensation Act, two Kaigoorlie doctors have been fined £240 by the Medical Register Committee. The d. . tors are M. Gorman and a woman, V. T, Neville. The committee's investigation into the attendance upon and the fees charged for two injured workers io.lowed complaints by the State Insurance Office. On »‘ach oi two charges levelled jointly against the two doctors they were each fined £3O, On three other charges Neville was fined a further £l2O These charges included 37 attendances i 37 days or. workers suffering from •ainei'. backs. 22 attendances in 23 o .vs in a similar case, and 35 attendances in 36 cays on a worker suffering from dislocation of the first metacarpal joint (in the hand'. All the accounts rendered by the doctors m connection with, these cases will be automatically reduced.