The General Medical Council has cleared an experienced consultant neurologist who was investigated for three years for misconduct after giving a “pro-life” medical opinion in an end-of-life court case.
The Revd Dr Patrick Pullicino, 74, who after retirement was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Southwark, faced an investigation by the regulator which could have seen him barred from the profession.
In a career spanning 50 years, he had never faced a fitness to practise investigation until he was targeted by an assisted-suicide campaigner, Celia Kitzinger.
