PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Richmond, C.
TI  - The strange case of the misplaced suppository
DP  - 1995 Oct 01
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 980--981
VI  - 153
IP  - 7
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/7/980.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/7/980.full
SO  - CMAJ1995 Oct 01; 153
AB  - In a controversial decision, the General Medical Council has found a consultant anesthetist guilty of serious professional misconduct for giving a painkilling suppository without forewarning the patient and obtaining consent. Even though the suppository was misplaced in the patient's vagina, this was accepted as a mistake, at issue was whether a specific separate consent was required for insertion of the suppository.