A&E doctor who altered notes after failing to check patient&x2019;s blood results before discharge is struck off

A doctor who discharged a patient from a hospital’s accident and emergency department without reviewing blood test results that showed clear signs of a cardiac emergency, then altered the patient’s record to hide his mistake, has been struck off the UK medical register.Muhammad Umar Farooq was a locum registrar in emergency medicine at Northampton General Hospital in October 2021, when a male patient arrived complaining of chest pain. That evening, about four hours after the patient’s arrival, Farooq entered in his notes a suspected diagnosis of “lower respiratory tract infection.” Five minutes after that he added a further note saying that the patient had left the hospital.One minute before he wrote his first entry, the patient’s blood test results had become available on the hospital’s computer system, showing troponin elevated to 123, a clear indicator of acute coronary syndrome.Later that night, in the early hours of the morning, Farooq added…
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