A doctor has admitted cutting the lip of Harlequins rugby player Tom Williams to enable the winger to pretend to be injured during a Heineken Cup match.
A GMC panel has been told how Williams became “extremely panicked” after he bit into a fake blood capsule and was challenged about the authenticity of his “injury”.
He then asked Dr Wendy Chapman to cut him and she agreed, the panel was told. The ‘bloodgate’ incident allowed a goal-kicker to be brought on the pitch.
Dr Chapman, who was suspended from her post as a consultant at Kent’s Maidstone Hospital last September, is appearing before the GMC to face allegations her conduct was likely to bring the profession into disrepute and was dishonest.
Read more at BBC Health.
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