A 58-year-old doctor of Indian origin received a one-year suspension for staging an assault against a patient in order to have him taken off the surgical list. Due to a merger with another doctor's practice, Gurkirit Kalkat, who worked at Thames View Medical Centre in Dagenham, Essex, England, wished to let go of the patient. He went to tremendous measures, including beating himself up and making up the story that the patient had attacked him.

After calling the patient in for an appointment, Kalkat hurled himself against the door and beat his own chest while yelling, "Stop hitting me!"

The drug-issue patient sat in a chair and watched in disbelief.

After Kalkat hit a panic button, cops showed up and handcuffed the patient.

But when Kalkat declined to press charges, the probe was closed, according to the Daily Mail.

In an effort to persuade the patient to sign up with a different general practitioner (GP), Kalkat had earlier told him false information about having terminal blood cancer.

He even covered the patient's rehabilitation costs in full, paying £44,000.

According to the Daily Mail, the patient secretly recorded a medical consultation in which Kalkat falsely stated he had six months to live and made an additional £15,000 offer to quit the business.

Kalkat, of Loughton, Essex, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct at the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester. As a result, he was barred from practicing medicine for a year.

Stephen Killen, the chairman of the tribunal, declared "Dr Kalkat had been taking increasingly inappropriate, desperate and dishonest actions with a view to Patient A registering elsewhere. It was clear that, if Dr Kalkat reported Patient A for being violent towards him, he would no longer be required to act as his GP."

Kalkat asserted that the patient had threatened to hurt him and his family and wanted £15,000, but he denied any involvement.

“It was clear that if Dr Kalkat reported Patient A for being violent towards him, he would no longer be required to act as his GP. Taking all the available evidence into account, it was more likely than not that Dr. Kalkat’s report to police that Patient A had assaulted him was untrue,” said Chairman Stephen Killen.

Due to the patient's reported explosive behavior, Kalkat did not attend the tribunal session; instead, he submitted written testimony through his lawyer, expressing worries for his safety.

Kalkat was finally given a 12-month suspension by the tribunal for grave Professional misconduct.

(Input from various sources)

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