Dentist found guilty of failing to wear gloves and urinating in his surgery's sink

Dentist found guilty of failing to wear gloves and urinating in sink - Guardian

Really this beggars belief! - Read it for yourself... Here is an extract:

"A long-serving dentist who cleaned his ears and fingernails with sterilised instruments intended for examining patients was yesterday found guilty of threatening his patients' health and erased from the dentists' register.

Alan Hutchinson, 51, was also found guilty of urinating in his surgery's sink and routinely working on teeth without washing his hands or wearing anti-infection gloves. He denied most of the charges, only admitting at a three-day hearing of the General Dental Council that he sometimes avoided gloves because of a latex allergy. The other claims, he said, left him "stunned into silence"."

Dentist accused of unhygienic practices: General Dental Council hearing

Dentist 'used tools to clean out his ears' - Telegraph

Extract:

"A dentist used sterilised instruments to clean his ears and urinated in a surgical sink, a General Dental Council hearing heard yesterday.

Alan Hutchinson, 51, is also accused of unhygienic practices including cleaning his fingernails with sterilised tools and refusing to routinely wear gloves at his surgery in Batley, West Yorks.

At the hearing in central London, the father-of-three pleaded not guilty to all the charges except that of not routinely wearing gloves."

UK dentist, David Quelch, who pulled out an elderly woman's teeth without anaesthetic "to teach her a lesson" has been thrown out of the profession.

Dentist pulled out teeth 'as a lesson' (UK)

Extract:

"David Quelch left the 87-year-old with blood pouring from her mouth after she made a complaint about previous treatment at his hands, a discipline hearing was told yesterday.

He was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Dental Council yesterday and the committee ordered his name be removed from the register."

I believe that in cases like this - professional malpractice and deliberate cruelty in order to punish and victimise a complainant - the police should be involved and there should be criminal procedures. I also think that this fellow should pay substantial monetary recompense to his victim without her having to pay a solicitor to take the matter to the civil courts, if she should so choose. - In my opinion, the General Dental Council and the General Medical Council are of little use to anyone other than the many negligent members of their respective professions, but at least they have, in this instance, 'struck him off', though incredibly they "found charges that he restrained her and against her will not proved."!!! - It would have been heart-warming if the GDC had had the power to order him to pay money to his victim, and had exercised that power.