A NSW GP whose family developed a close relationship with an elderly patient and allowed her to pay for his child’s school fees, buy him expensive medical equipment and build a small dwelling on his property for her care, and then benefited from her substantial will when she died, has had his registration cancelled.
Dr Michael Cleary, who had been a GP for 40 years with an unblemished record before his treatment of an elderly woman known as Patient A, had his registration as a medical practitioner cancelled last month by the NSW civil and administrative tribunal.
