Doctor who referred boy for experimental probe and unnecessary treatment is suspended for 12 months

A doctor has been suspended for 12 months for referring a 6 year old boy for investigation using a neuroscope, an experimental tool, outside a clinical trial, and for supporting treatment that involved his wearing an oxygen face mask for several hours a day, exposing him to possible harm.Jean Monro, a retired general physician in private practice who specialised in environmental medicine and who qualified in 1960, applied for voluntary erasure, but her application was refused by General Medical Council case examiners. She did not attend the medical practitioners tribunal.The use of an oxygen mask came to light when the boy disclosed it at school. The school informed his NHS paediatrician, who was already concerned about what she saw as a pattern of “doctor shopping” by the boy’s parents on behalf of their two children, who were seen by the NHS as “inherently well.”The paediatrician, who had already obtained the…
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