Medic has her ban extended

A DOCTOR who was jailed for assaults on police officers and nurses has had her suspension from the profession extended by seven months.

Karen Clark turned to theft and violence after spiralling into alcoholism and has served two terms behind bars.

On one occasion, while off duty, she attacked four nurses after being taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock for treatment.

In other incidents, the medic, who worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, attacked police officers, was found drunk behind the wheel of her car and also had possession of cocaine.

Clark, from Kilwinning, Ayrshire, has been suspended from practising since 2016 by the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service (MPTS) but a review hearing was held earlier this month and made the ruling.

Another review hearing will be heard towards the

ALCOHOL Karen Clark end of the latest suspension.

The medic has detailed her fight against booze addiction in a blog.

She described how she became addicted to alcohol in her 20s.

Clark was a senior registrar in the emergency department at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

She was jailed for nine months at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court in April, 2015. The sentence was imposed after she admitted assaulting four nurses and four police officers during separate incidents in July, 2014.

She also pled guilty to two counts of threatening and abusive behaviour in April, 2014.

In November 2017, she was jailed for eight months for breaching community payback orders imposed for theft and housebreaking and a sheriff warned her she would end up dead if she didn’t deal with her alcohol problem.