A locum doctor who “frightened” and “intimidated” a patient at Caithness General Hospital has been struck off.
Dr Issa Aburiziq had been suspended for the past year by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) for his conduct at the Wick facility and in Cumbria.
The watchdog has now decided to remove the doctor from the profession after a review hearing determined that he had failed to engage with the regulator and shown no evidence of insight.
Dr Aburiziq worked as a locum doctor in accident and emergency at Caithness General between May 2 and July 1, 2012.
The MPTS found last summer that one June 25 of that year he was “rude” towards a patient by swearing at him, using a “threatening tone of voice” and shouting loudly at him to “sit down”.
The panel found that this caused the unnamed patient to feel “frightened and/or intimidated”.
Dr Aburiziq also failed to record an examination of a different patient during his time at Caithness General.
He was also found to have made a number of clinical failings while working at North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust between July 13-15, 2012.
The review of Dr Aburiziq’s suspension was held without the doctor present and determined that his fitness to practise remained impaired because of a lack of evidence provided to the contrary.
In his findings, tribunal chairman Paul Moulder said: “The tribunal is faced with a situation where, a further year having elapsed, Dr Aburiziq has offered no evidence of acceptance as to his failings, no evidence of development of insight and has not engaged in any way with his regulator.
“He has neither provided any evidence of continued professional development or other training.”
Dr Aburiziq will be erased from the medical register, unless he chooses to appeal the decision within 28 days of the decision being served upon him.”
