A hospital surgeon who told a patient "you have cancer, I have asthma, we all have to die some time" has lost his appeal against being struck off.
Three Law Lords ruled against Dr Mohannad Al-Fallouji, who was removed from the medical register by the General Medical Council last October after being found guilty of serious professional misconduct.
The GMC was not required to attend the two-hour Privy Council hearing in London yesterday, at which the married doctor of Liversedge personally addressed the Law Lords.
The Law Lords will give reasons for their judgment in the coming weeks.
In October, the GMC meeting in central London heard how the 51-year-old surgeon informed the cancer patient in her 50s that she was terminally ill.
Dr Al-Fallouji, of Owlet Hurst Lane, also made unprofessional and inappropriate comments to patients, student doctors and staff while working as a consultant surgeon at the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, between July 1995 and May 1999.
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