Medic faces being struck off

Mar 2 2008 by James McCarthy, Wales On Sunday

A GYNAECOLOGIST who did national service under Saddam Hussein faces being struck off after sending drugs to family in Iraq.

Dr Eman Al-Teman, who qualified at the University of Baghdad, wrote prescriptions for her son and husband, who lived in the UK, but sent them to help family in the Middle East.

She admitted falsifying prescriptions when she appeared at Cardiff Crown Court in 2005 in a misguided attempt to help her sister at home, who is disabled by hereditary illness.

Al-Teman is now banned from issuing prescriptions alone and from prescribing privately. The GMC say she is currently working in south Glamorgan.

Next month, the medic, who was 45 at the time of the court case, will face a General Medical Council hearing in Manchester.

The GMC said: “The panel will review the case of Dr Eman Abdul Amir Muhamed Al-Teman, a clinical fellow in obstetrics and gynaecology, who acted in a way which was dishonest and an abuse of her professional position, when presenting a fraudulent prescription to a pharmacist.

“It was also found proved that Dr Al-Teman acted in a way which was inappropriate, unprofessional and not in the best interests of two patients.

“The panel will review the conditions placed on her registration for a period of 18 months from 29 September, 2006, until 28 March, 2008.”

A GMC spokeswoman added: “There are a certain number of sanctions the GMC can impose like putting conditions on a doctor or erasing them from the register.”