No confidence vote: senior doctor's treatment causes ill feeling at Central West hospital

By Janice Harris
May 25 2016 - 1:00pm
NO CONFIDENCE VOTE: Orange’s Medical Staff Council chair Dr Ruth Arnold hopes changes are under way to improve the workplace culture at Orange Health Service with calls for an independent administrator to be appointed following an extraordinary meeting of doctors on Monday night. Photo: PHIL BLATCH                                                                                  0520pbdoctors4
NO CONFIDENCE VOTE: Orange’s Medical Staff Council chair Dr Ruth Arnold hopes changes are under way to improve the workplace culture at Orange Health Service with calls for an independent administrator to be appointed following an extraordinary meeting of doctors on Monday night. Photo: PHIL BLATCH 0520pbdoctors4

At an extraordinary meeting of Orange’s Medical Staff Council (MSC) at Duntryleague Golf Club on Monday night, almost 100 doctors cast their vote claiming the senior cardiologist had been unfairly treated after he clashed with a clinician in another section of the hospital over patient welfare and lodged a subsequent complaint with hospital management in September last year.

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