The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found a former Taree doctor guilty of misconduct.
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The Health Care Complaints Commission issued a public statement about its complaint against Dr Emil Gayed, a formerly registered obstetrician and gynaecologist, before the tribunal.
The complaint alleged that Dr Gayed was guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct in relation to his clinical examination and management of seven patients over a three year period.
At the relevant period, Dr Gayed was a Visiting Medical Officer in the maternity and gynaecological division at Manning Rural Referral Hospital in Taree. The complaints against Dr Gayed related to his failure to obtain informed consent, poor record keeping as well as a number of clinical failings, the most serious of which related to:
- Performing a hysterectomy when it was not clinically indicated given the patient’s complex medical history and wish for the lesser treatment of a myomectomy to be performed;
- Failing to identify a 10 week pregnancy when performing an endometrial ablation on a patient;
- Informing a patient that he was certain she had cervical cancer and undertaking procedures on her post-partum cervix that were not clinically indicated as there was no evidence of cervical malignancy;
- Undertaking a diagnostic laparotomy and unnecessarily removing a patient’s right ovary and fallopian tube which appeared normal and injuring the patient’s left ureter in the process.
Dr Gayed was legally represented, however, he did not attend the hearing and did not give evidence.
On June 6, the tribunal found Dr Gayed guilty of professional misconduct.
The tribunal ordered that if Dr Gayed was registered, it would have cancelled his registration. It also ordered that Dr Gayed be disqualified from being registered for a period of three years from that date and that the National Board record the fact that the tribunal would have cancelled Dr Gayed’s registration.
The tribunal has yet to publish its written reasons for the decision.