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Doctor fined $36,500 for book of ‘demeaning’ patient photos and notes
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Doctor fined $36,500 for book of ‘demeaning’ patient photos and notes

  • May 21, 2026

The book included comments, accompanying a patient’s unnamed medical chart, claiming “the over 200kg club are almost always ‘easy’ intubations”.

In the book’s introduction, Rathie claimed it was created with the purposes of “amusement and bemusement”.

“You may well learn a thing or three about subjects that were otherwise unlikely to become lodged in your hippocampus,” it read.

“Contained herein is a compilation of images collected over the last year or two during my work as an anaesthetist in a busy regional hospital in Queensland, Australia.”

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