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1. Doctor guilty over eye drop endorsement

   Posted Oct 01st 2010, 12:00am by Amy Nip

   ... Medical Council Amy Nip An eye specialist has been found guilty of professional misconduct for endorsing an eyedrop in newspapers and magazines. Dr Samuel Hui Tak-wing (pictured) had failed to prevent the printing of an interview that endorsed the Alcon product in five publications, the Medical Council concluded yesterday. Hui, who has practised for two decades, will be sent ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/726235/doctor-guilty-over-eye-drop-endorsement
2. News - Hong Kong - PRIVACY

   Medical Council's ban on note-taking at disciplinary hearings criticised

   Posted Mar 30th 2013, 12:00am by Emily Tsang

   ... News Hong Kong Medical Council disciplinary hearings Emily Tsang emily.tsang@scmp.com Medical Council's restriction at disciplinary inquiries unreasonable, patients' group says The Medical Council has been urged to abandon a regulation that bans the public from taking notes during its disciplinary hearings. A patients' group says the restriction - described by a leading ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1202760/medical-councils-ban-note-taking-disciplinary-hearings-criticised
3. News - Hong Kong - MEDICINE

   Health supplement chief guilty of misconduct

   Posted Apr 24th 2013, 12:00am by LO WEI

   ... Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, who praised her character and contribution to charities and public service. Chan had used the specialist title on a fax cover in a letter to the Medical Council in 2007, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1221687/health-supplement-chief-guilty-misconduct
4. Warning for plastic surgeon over advert

   Posted May 28th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Conviction Medical Council Chris Ip and Ng Yuk-hang A plastic surgeon was found guilty yesterday of two breaches of professional conduct for featuring in a magazine ad promoting a cosmetic centre and offering discount coupons. The Medical Council acquitted another doctor who appeared in the same ad. Francis Ho Wing-Yun, who was not at the hearing, admitted both charges. He and Tony ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/715521/warning-plastic-surgeon-over-advert
5. Doctors' objection to fee ruling a bit rich

   Posted May 02nd 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... it comes to patients' bills. It is disappointing, therefore, to see the head of the Medical Association - which represents doctors' interests - objecting to a new Medical Council ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/713203/doctors-objection-fee-ruling-bit-rich
6. Bad conduct may cost licence, doctors told

   Posted Feb 04th 2010, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... to the code, but there was no need to modify the code yet, the committee said. Of 469 complaints the council received in 2008, 12 per cent were related to doctors' attitudes towards patients. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/705411/bad-conduct-may-cost-licence-doctors-told
7. News - Hong Kong - MEDICAL COUNCIL

   Doctor banned by Medical Council for secret photos of women patients

   Posted Nov 05th 2012, 12:00am by Stuart Lau

   ... News Hong Kong Sexual offences Medical Council Doctor Stuart Lau stuart-lau@scmp.com A private doctor was found guilty of professional misconduct and permanently deregistered after he secretly took pictures of six women patients and improperly touched the breasts and private parts of five of them. It is the harshest penalty yet handed down by the Medical Council ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1075109/doctor-banned-medical-council-secret-photos-women-patients
8. 'Piecemeal' reforms will be rejected, warns legislator

   Posted Jun 23rd 2008, 12:00am by Ella Lee

   ... the profession. He said the issue of the Medical Council's autonomy was more pressing. Earlier this year, the council had to rely on the Department of Justice in an appeal against a court ruling ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/642592/piecemeal-reforms-will-be-rejected-warns-legislator
9. Medical Council can be more open on licensing HK doctors who trained abroad

   Posted Jun 29th 2012, 12:00am

   ... and blood from working for local people makes no sense and can only harm the reputation of our medical profession. I hope the council will consider my suggestion when formulating future ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/1005362/medical-council-can-be-more-open-licensing-hk-doctors-who-trained-abroad
10. Restrictions hinder health care system

    Posted Aug 14th 2011, 12:00am

    ... with the disclosure that fewer than 10 per cent of foreign doctors who sit the Medical Council examination do well enough to get a licence. Dr Cheung Hon-ming, president of an association of doctors who have ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/article/976153/restrictions-hinder-health-care-system

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