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Thu 03 Mar 2009Doctor who used insensitive terms cleared of misconduct
A DUBLIN GP who used inappropriate and insensitive terminology when trying to ascertain if a young woman patient was pregnant or might have a sexually transmitted infection was yesterday found not guilty of professional misconduct.
Alma McQuade told the first medical council fitness-to-practise committee inquiry to be held in public under the 2007 Medical Practitioners Act that Dr Ross Ardill (42) asked her when was she last “close to a man’s naked willy” when she visited his surgery on September 25th, 2007 with flu-like symptoms. She had been ill for a few weeks.
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