A trainee doctor has avoided being sacked despite admitting to drinking alcohol while working on night duty and then driving home three times over the legal limit.
The tribunal was told the trainee GP was banned fro driving by magistrates
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing gave the trainee doctor a warning after concluding that his risk of repeating the behaviour was low. Ms Tighe said that he narrowly missed crashing into another vehicle when leaving the hospital car park. In his reflection statement Dr Maheshwari said: “I have never in my life so irresponsible to using any drug/alcohol at work which I really am sorry about as how it could have made things worse due to risk of patients at being harm and I am at risk of hurting myself, hurting others, irrational behaviour.”
Deciding that the doctor was currently ‘not impaired’, MPTS tribunal chair Nicholas Flanagan said: “As Dr Maheshwari admitted in evidence, due to his intoxication, he was unable to undertake any assessments of patients and could have caused serious harm by prescribing inappropriate medication or doses in his intoxicated state.
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