“There were incidents written but that’s not specific to us. I know that the same things went on at the San [Sydney Adventist Hospital] and certainly the same things at Hornsby in the late 1980s and early 1990s,” she said. “He was super aggressive when nursing staff informed him of their concerns.”

As with the incompetent Patel, what concerns me most is that complaints and warnings were ignored for a long time

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Parliament was told yesterday that Mr Reeves was known within hospitals circles in the area as “Chopper Reeves”, after standover man Mark “Chopper” Reed.

The Liberal Member for Bega, Andrew Constance, said he had been told of the nickname by the doctor’s colleagues in the area at the time.

But Mr Constance said the doctor was cleared by the local health service, despite his colleagues’ concerns and victims’ complaints to the NSW Medical Board.

“How did the health service not pick up the phone to the Medical Board and check these credentials?” he said.

visit Ella’s Child blog for the very lowdown on RNSH killing her husband with their incompetence and their doctor’s failure to grasp the english language.

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It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Tong is suffering from an acute depressive episode NOW, after he’s been caught and he no longer has access to the gratification of abusing his patients. But that’s got nothing to do with why he abused those patients in the first place.

Newsflash: depression doesn’t cause perfectly normal, compassionate, non-sociopathic “gentlemen” to suddenly turn around and rape a series of women and lie to the Medical Board about it. And people who do suffer from the illness of depression would be quite within their rights to be righteously pissed off at this sort of crap flying around in the courts.

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