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| A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort girl has been suspended for six months by the General Medical Council (GMC). | A doctor who falsified a prescription for a cocaine-addicted escort girl has been suspended for six months by the General Medical Council (GMC). |
| Adam Osborne, 33, brother of shadow chancellor George Osborne, admitted "inappropriate" behaviour. | Adam Osborne, 33, brother of shadow chancellor George Osborne, admitted "inappropriate" behaviour. |
| Dr Osborne, training in Manchester at the time, also obtained contraceptive pills for his girlfriend and an anti-smoking drug for a family member. | Dr Osborne, training in Manchester at the time, also obtained contraceptive pills for his girlfriend and an anti-smoking drug for a family member. |
| The panel had already ruled that his failings constituted misconduct. | The panel had already ruled that his failings constituted misconduct. |
| It found on Tuesday that Dr Osborne behaved dishonestly in an attempt to obtain medication for the woman, who he had been seeing while his partner was away. | |
| He has been suspended from practising medicine for six months for misconduct. | |
| The seriousness of your conduct is such that a signal must be made to you and your profession Alyson Leslie, chair of the panel | |
| The suspension will be imposed with immediate effect to "protect public interest", the panel ruled. | |
| Dr Osborne's legal representative, Christina Lambert QC, said she was unsure whether an appeal would be made against the ruling. | |
| "The seriousness of your conduct is such that a signal must be made to you and your profession," Alyson Leslie, chair of the panel, told Dr Osborne. | |
| She added that the psychiatrist "seemed unable to grasp that an act of dishonesty remained an act of dishonesty". | |
| Ahead of the ruling, Ms Lambert explained that her client was due to start a new full time job in April which would be jeopardised by a suspension. | |
| "Given that these jobs of a permanent nature are few and far between, the impact on him would be disastrous," she said. | |
| But GMC counsel Bernadette Baxter said that suspension was the appropriate sanction. | |
| In her submissions pre-ruling, Ms Baxter said the failings were "serious and persistent" breaches. |