Consultant left operating room

Ed Madden, BL, looks at a recent High Court case in which the Medical Council sought confirmation of its decision on sanction in respect of a consultant anaesthetist who admitted a number of allegations of professional misconduct In June 2017, the High Court delivered its judgment in a case in which the Medical Council made an application to the Court for confirmation of its decision on sanction in respect of a consultant anaesthetist under the terms of the Medical Practitioner’s Act, 2007. When the matter came on for hearing, the Court was informed that in September 2014, Frank Cowan, a…