The Medical Council has recommended that a former Co Clare GP, Dr Paschal Carmody, should never again be allowed register to work as a doctor in the Republic.
Its decision was announced yesterday after its fitness-topractise committee found Dr Carmody guilty of professional misconduct in two further cases. The finding was based on the "standard of care" he gave to patients and the "unrealistic expectations" he gave them.
Dr Carmody was struck off the medical register in April following a number of other inquiries into complaints against him.
Doctors can normally apply to be reinstated on the register at a later stage, but the council's president, Dr John Hillery, said yesterday the council was for the first time recommending that Dr Carmody never again be granted registration. The medical authorities in other countries would be notified, he said.
The latest two cases in which the Killaloe doctor was found guilty of professional misconduct relate to his involvement in the provision of an alternative light therapy for the treatment of a patient with advanced cancer and the use of chelation therapy to treat a patient who suffered from angina.
It is understood that Dr Carmody, who is now the subject of a Garda investigation, did not attend these latest inquiries.
Dr Hillery said the council's file on its latest investigations into Dr Carmody would be immediately passed on to the Garda. The council would look at whether or not it should also send its files on earlier cases against him to gardaí, he said.
He found Dr Carmody's conduct "nauseating", he added.
Ms Bernie Gallagher, one of two women whose complaints against Dr Carmody were upheld yesterday, said she was still angry. "This is not justice for me. It's too little too late, and he can still practise alternative medicine," she said.