Doctor pleads guilty to abortion clinic infections: "He made admissions to the Medical Practitioners Board in 1995 that he had abused fentanyl and pethidine, obtained by forging prescriptions.
He was charged by police with several counts of failing to give notice that a patient was drug-dependent and obtaining a drug of dependence by forging prescriptions.
He was convicted over the charges, received community-based orders and two months’ jail, which was wholly suspended for 18 months.
In July 1996 he was also charged with multiple counts of aiding and abetting another person to forge a prescription for drugs, and for being in possession of a drug of dependence, using a drug of dependence and introducing a drug into the body of another. He was again convicted and released on a community-based order for 18 months.
He was ordered to undergo assessment for a drug addiction, submit to medical, psychological and/or psychiatric treatment and be drug-tested as part of his conditions.
The medical board suspended him in 1996 before he returned to work at Box Hill Hospital the following year.
He tested positive for hepatitis C — a disease of which the health department must be notified — in 1997."
