Consultant defends turning off equipment during operations - Liverpool Daily Post 29th November 2007

A CONSULTANT anaesthetist who switched off vital machines during surgery to test junior doctors’ training was not “sabotaging” patients and the tactic was “not particularly inappropriate”, medical watchdogs heard yesterday. Dr James Murphy, 49, turned off the power supply to anaesthetics machinery and told junior colleagues at the Cardiothoracic Centre, in Liverpool, that he was going on a coffee break before walking out of the operating theatre.

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