GP who treated patient without checking her records guilty of poor professional performance
A Kildare-based GP who treated a patient diagnosed with a long-standing overactive thyroid condition with medication for an underactive thyroid without checking with her former GP and consultants has been found guilty of poor professional performance.
A fitness-to-practise committee of the Medical Council found three allegations proven against Neville Wilson of the Harbour Medical Centre, Kilcock, Co Kildare in relation to his consultation with the patient on June 24th 2021.
It followed a separate medical inquiry in 2024 where the 84-year-old South African native was found guilty of professional misconduct over his failure to follow public health guidelines at his clinic during the Covid-19 pandemic and displaying posters containing false and misleading information about vaccines.
In the latest case, the patient had been diagnosed almost a decade earlier with Graves’ disease – an autoimmune disorder that results in an overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism, which can cause...
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