A HYPNOTIST WHO USED DRUGS TO TREAT A MENTAL PATIE
A HYPNOTIST WHO USED DRUGS TO TREAT A MENTAL PATIENT
AMDITTED ON FRIDAY HE HAS NO QUALIFICATIONS IN EITHER PSYCHIATRY OR
ANAESTHESIA.
DR JOSEPH JAFFE, 61, CES CHARGES OF SERIOUS PROFESSIONAL
MISCONDUCT RELATING TO HIS FIVE YEAR TREATMENT OF BUSINESSMAN GEORGE
WATERSON, WHO CLAIMS HE WAS TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE AND HIS LIFE RUINED.
WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN MR WATERSON RECEIVED MORE THAN 300
INJECTIONS OF THE ANAESTHETIC BRIATOL, REFERRED TO AS ‘JAFFE JUICE’,
BY THE DOCTOR.
EARLIER THE HEARING WAS TOLD THAT THE TREATMENT TURNED MR
WATERSON FROM A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN INTO AN ‘AUTOMATON’.
HE
HAD VIOLENT CHANGES OF MOOD, MADE SEXUAL ADVANCES TO HIS DAUGHTER AND
PROPOSED MARRIAGE TO JAFFE’S SECRETARY.
DR JAFFE ADMITTED TO THE GENERAL MEDICAL DISCIPLINARY
COMMITTEE THAT HE HAD NO SPECIALIST QUALIFICATIONS TO ADMINISTER
ANAESTHETICS.
AND HE SAID THAT AFTER HEARING MEDICAL EVIDENCE THAT THE
DRUG COULD BE ADDICTIVE HE TOLD THE COMMITTEE HE WOULD NOT USE ‘JAFFE
JUICE’ AGAIN.
DR JAFFE USED THE DRUG TO INDUCE A STATE OF RELAXATION
BEFORE HYPNOTISING MR WATERSON AT HIS PRACTICE IN ST JOHN STREET,
MANCHESTER.
MR WATERSON PAID ABOUT #7,500 IN TOTAL FOR THE TREATMENT.
DR JAFFE ADMITTED HE KNEW OF NO OTHER DOCTOR USING THE DRUG
IN THE SAME WAY.
HE DESCRIBED IT AS ‘INNOVATIVE’.
BUT NICHOLAS BRANDT, COUNSEL FOR THE GENERAL MEDICAL
COUNCIL, SAID IT WAS A ‘MOST DANGEROUS MALPRACTICE’.
HE ADDED: ‘YOU HAVE NO QUALIFICATIONS AT ALL YET YOU TREAT
PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSES.
‘YOU HAVE NO QUALIFICATIONS AS AN ANAESTHETIST.
YOUR
EXPERIENCE WAS IN YOUR VERY EARLY HOSPITAL DAYS AT THE MOST JUNIOR
RANK’.
DR JAFFE SAID HE HAD WORKED WITH ANAESTHETICS FOR MORE THAN
20 YEARS.
HE WENT ON: ‘I AM NOT SUGGESTING FOR ONE MINUTE THAT I AM
A CONSULTANT ANAESTHETIST.
BUT I AM SAYING I HAVE SOME EXPERIENCE IN
ANAESTHETICS.
‘I KNEW OF THE DANGERS OF BRIATOL AS AN ANAESTHETIC.
I KNEW
IT WAS NOT FINDING FAVOUR IN DENTISTRY BUT IT IS USED’.
THERE WAS A CHANCE OF PATIENTS BECOMING ADDICTED TO THE
DRUG AND A ‘REMOTE POSSIBILITY’ THAT IT COULD CAUSE PATIENTS
PROBLEMS, SAID DR JAFFE.
HE ADDED HE ALWAYS TOLD PATIENTS IF HE WAS TREATING THEM
WITH BRIATOL.
THE PHRASE ‘JAFFE JUICE’ WAS A QUIP AND NOT AN ATTEMPT
TO CONCEAL THE TRUTH OF WHAT HE WAS DOING.
THE HEARING CONTINUES.
ENDS
