Rude doctor gets the boot

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'Rude' Doctor Barred from Practice in UK

Tue Oct 22, 2:11 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - A British surgeon reported to have told a patient "you have cancer, I have asthma, we all have to die some time" was struck off the rolls Monday.

The General Medical Council said Dr. Mohannad Al-Fallouji's conduct "has rightly been described as bizarre."

The surgeon, dubbed "a walking terror in a white coat" by the media, made lewd remarks to female colleagues and occasionally groped them. He wrote nasty and deliberately misleading references about junior doctors, the GMC said.

He also sent a flirtatious card to a young female patient, trying to arrange a date without her parents finding out.

And he had a habit of informing patients they had cancer in a manner that was "abrupt, insensitive, rude and below a reasonable professional standard," the council found.

He once informed a patient who had been told she may have gallstones "words to the effect that she had a malignant cancer and that she should feel privileged that she had time to prepare for her death and make a will."

"In view of your behavior toward patients and colleagues there are no conditions which would enable the Committee to conclude that you could safely resume practice," it said.

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Good show!

You have to wonder...was he always like that, or just got rude and mean as he got older? What a jerk!!!!! Think of all those poor people who had the misfortune of finding out from THAT GUY that they had cancer. We can all be thankful that there's one less rude doctor out there!;)

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Wow that MD needs a lesson in bedside manner for sure. Would hate to be on the receiving end of that type of delivery of bad news. As a nurse you would get to clean up after that mess.....

renerian

Someone should have taken him into a little room and told him - "You're fired, and I am gonna take your job, we all gotta lose sometime dog"

Worst part is he'll probably come to the states and get a job at an HMO. He seems to have the credentials.

pathogenie, could I ask you to post the link to that article? Thanks!

Yep, here you go...

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That jerk got just what was coming to him!

Originally posted by pathogenie

Yep, here you go...

Thanks! Wanted to forward to my colleagues.

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