TV doctor Persaud 'unfit to practise'

TV psychiatrist Dr. Raj Persaud has been accused of bringing his profession into disrepute.

Persaud, known for his appearances on This Morning and Radio 4's All In The Mind, admitted to plagiarism when facing the General Medical Council (GMC).

The 45-year-old claimed that the mental strain of combining media and NHS commitments caused him to lift material from foreign scholars and pass it off as his own in a book and articles written for the British Medical Journal and The Independent.

Dr. Anthony Morgan of the GMC's Fitness to Practise panel told Persaud: "The panel is of the view that you must have known that your actions in allowing the work of others to be seen as though it was your own would be considered dishonest by ordinary people.

"The panel has therefore determined that your actions were dishonest in accordance with the accepted definition of dishonesty in these proceedings."

Persaud denied that his actions were dishonest and would bring psychiatry into disrepute.