SA Health has quietly rejected one of the key findings of a comprehensive review into the suspension of doctors – a report ordered by Health Minister Jack Snelling after a disastrous case which led to a multi-million-dollar payout to a wrongly accused surgeon. The revelation comes as one of the state’s most experienced lawyers working in medical litigation described SA Health as a chaotic, toxic, incompetent and “anti-doctor” department which uses the suspension of practitioners as a “weapon”.
