Medical Council says Dr Chu Kin-wah failed to properly investigate after patient’s complaints or adequately check possible presence of a foreign object.
a courtroom showdown in missouri could decide whether the state s last remaining abortion clinic gets the stay open. planned parenthood is suing the missouri health department alleging the agency was unlawfully holding up renewal of the license until the department completes an investigation into a patient complaint. the license is set to expire tomorrow and planned parenthood is requesting a restraining order in hopes of keeping the doors open. in the license is not renewed, missouri would become the first state without access to a single abortion service since 1974. joining me now is dr. lena nguyen. it s great to have you here in person. tell me more about what s at stake in this court case and the implications for the rest of the
be made before the expiration of that clinic s license which is tomorrow at midnight. and so they are hoping that it gets done today or tomorrow. again, the judge will decide at some point what will happen here. but what came out in the trial are a couple of interesting facts. there are some sticking points through the license procedure and one of the big sticking points was a patient complaint. can a out that the patient complaint in fact does not exist and instead the state had gotten information out of medical records that they were reviewing. on top of that, the second issue that came about was the fact that they weren t able to the state was not able to interview three physicians. what planned parenthood argued is that they have already interviewed the staff physicians, but the three physicians in particular that are causing the sticking point are actually trainees, these are residents that they want to interview. the residents own legal advisers have said don t talk to them be