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Some patients are so grateful to their physicians that they give them gifts, and on occasion, even name the physician in their will. But this could potentially lead to problems.
Laura Banks is a health reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald
Dr Peter Alexakis allegedly visited the elderly patient 92 times in the months leading up to the execution of his will, which left him a $24 million fortune.
A Sydney doctor who inherited $24 million from a patient after a lengthy legal battle in May with the deceased man's ex-business partner, friends and The Salvation Army, has been found guilty of malpractice.
NSW Health Care Complaints Commission alleged GP Peter Alexakis intended ‘to financially benefit from the patient-doctor relationship’