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Failure to diagnose and inaccurate record keeping

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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December 21 2010

The Health and Disability Commissioner has found a general practitioner in breach of the Code for failing to appropriately manage and investigate a patient's iron deficiency and failing to diagnose the patient's bowel cancer

Director of proceedings appears at inquest

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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December 21 2010

A patient's colon was perforated during a laparoscopic cholecyscectomy

Cancellation and $85,000 costs for midwife found guilty of professional misconduct

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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December 21 2010

A midwife found guilty of six charges of professional misconduct has had her registration cancelled and has been censured and ordered to pay $85,000 in costs

Doctor's conviction for objectionable material results in suspension

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2011

A doctor has been suspended for 9 months following a finding by the Tribunal that his convictions on 6 charges of possession of objectionable material (including sexual abuse images of girls between 12 and 14 years) reflected adversely on his fitness to practise

Nurse's registration cancelled for dishonest and negligent conduct

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2011

The Tribunal has cancelled a nurse's registration after a finding of professional misconduct for falsifying patient observations, failing to re-check a patient's blood glucose level when this was significantly out of line with the trend (instead, the nurse increased the insulin resulting in hypoglycaemia), and asking a former colleague to steal Tramadol capsules on his behalf

Optometrist fined for practising without practising certificate

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2011

The Tribunal has fined and censured an optometrist for practising optometry for around 11 weeks without a current practising certificate

Fine imposed for breach of Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2011

A man who performed "restricted activities" and placed advertisements that were found to be calculated to suggest that he was practising, or willing to practise, as a chiropractor without being registered and holding a current practising certificate has been fined $9,000 following his conviction on 14 charges under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

Doctor suspended for practising without practising cerificate and when suspended

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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March 22 2011

A doctor has been suspended, censured, and ordered to pay costs for undertaking medical examinations and blood tests ("insurance medicals") at times when he did not hold a current practising certificate, in breach of conditions imposed on an interim certificate subsequently issued, and during a period of suspension ordered by the Tribunal

Practising without a current practising cerificate

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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March 22 2011

The Tribunal has found a urologist guilty of practising without a current APC, guilty of failing to comply with conditions imposed on his scope of practice, and guilty of professional misconduct for failing to provide a patient with an appropriate standard of care

District Court finds delayed caesarean amounted to medical error

Buddle Findlay
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New Zealand
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May 9 2011

The District Court has overturned ACC's decision to decline cover for brain injury at birth caused by feto-maternal haemorrhage and consequent hypoxia