Waikato Hospital patient Robert Williams was woken at 4am when one of his doctors arrived drunk and rambling in his hospital room. Waikato health bosses are refusing to comment on the outcome of an investigation into a doctor who drunkenly abused a patient. Robert Pere Williams made a video and audio recordings of an intoxicated junior doctor who barged into his hospital room about 4am on December 17. The doctor told Williams, 22, he was upset because Waikato Hospital was so understaffed and repeatedly called the 22-year-old “a faggot”. He also threatened to kill himself. Waikato DHB staff declined to be interviewed on the matter but in a statement Greg Peploe, director of people and performance, said the board had concluded its investigation into the incident. Peploe said Williams and the doctor had been interviewed but, due to privacy rights, the board would not comment on the specific outcomes of its investigation. Williams, who has cystic fibrosis, alleged the doctor was drunk and he no longer felt safe in the hospital. He also complained about the behaviour of other hospital staff toward him. Peploe said no other employees had been investigated.
