The strange case of the misplaced suppository.
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Abstract
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.