RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The strange case of the misplaced suppository
JF Canadian Medical Association Journal
JO CMAJ
FD Canadian Medical Association
SP 980
OP 981
VO 153
IS 7
A1 Richmond, C.
YR 1995
UL http://www.cmaj.ca/content/153/7/980.abstract
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.