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George Osborne's psychiatrist brother 'begged lover's silence' | |
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Chancellor George Osborne's psychiatrist brother begged a vulnerable patient not to report him to a medical watchdog after he ended their affair, a tribunal has heard. | Chancellor George Osborne's psychiatrist brother begged a vulnerable patient not to report him to a medical watchdog after he ended their affair, a tribunal has heard. |
Dr Adam Osborne, who was married at the time, told her exposing the two-year affair would "destroy" his family, a disciplinary panel was told. | Dr Adam Osborne, who was married at the time, told her exposing the two-year affair would "destroy" his family, a disciplinary panel was told. |
He made threats towards the woman, asking her to retract her complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC). | |
Dr Osborne did not attend the hearing. | Dr Osborne did not attend the hearing. |
He treated the woman, referred to as Patient A, for depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue at a private practice in London between 2011 and 2014. | |
'Highly manipulative' | |
She also had problems with substance abuse and self-harm. | She also had problems with substance abuse and self-harm. |
Dr Osborne ended the relationship in February last year during an email exchange, the tribunal heard. | |
Two days later, Patient A, who is no longer living in the UK, was admitted to hospital after taking an overdose - hours after sending an email about the affair to psychiatrist Dr Neil Boast, who had temporarily been Dr Osborne's supervisor. | |
Following complaints to the GMC by Dr Boast and Patient A, Dr Osborne sent a "number of inappropriate emails" to his former lover between 14 February and 24 February, requesting that she withdraw the complaint. | |
One email said: "Please don't do this to me, it will destroy me and my family in public." | |
Representing the GMC, Bernadette Baxter said: "Patient A said on a number of occasions she wanted him to stop contacting her." | |
The emails "became more imploring" and Dr Osborne was "highly manipulative" in preying on the woman's vulnerabilities. | |
"He sees himself very much as a victim," she said. | |
Previous suspension | |
"Then there are emails where the mood very much changed and spills into the territory where he makes threats towards Patient A, consequences to her family." | |
The tribunal, which will judge whether the psychiatrist's fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct, was told that there had also been contact between Patient A and Dr Osborne's wife. | |
In 2010, the psychiatrist was suspended from practising medicine for six months after writing fraudulent prescriptions for a girlfriend, a family member and an escort while he was a trainee at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. | |
As a result, the GMC tribunal said the misconduct, which related to incidents between 2006 and 2008, impaired his fitness to practise. | |
It found he had "behaved dishonestly" after attempting to obtain anti-psychotic medication for a cocaine addict he had been seeing while his partner was away. |