Tribunal was wrong to take no action against junior doctor who sent explicit messages to two nurses – GWC Mag

A medical practitioners tribunal erred when it decided to take no action against a junior doctor in emergency medicine who sent unwanted sexually explicit messages on Facebook Messenger to two nurses he had previously worked with, a High Court judge has ruled.

The tribunal held last April that there were exceptional circumstances justifying imposing no sanction on Nour Mohamed Magdy Aly Rezk, described by the tribunal as “a diligent, conscientious and professional doctor on a training programme which he was completing in an exemplary fashion.”

The General Medical Council (GMC) appealed, arguing that he should have been suspended from the medical register. The tribunal had concluded that the circumstances, …