Google AI doctor faces being struck off for relationship with Bristol teen patient

Google AI doctor faces being struck off for relationship with Bristol teen patient

One of Google’s leading global experts on developing the use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine faces being struck off as a doctor after admitting he had an inappropriate relationship with a teenage patient who underwent an operation at Bristol’s Children’s Hospital.

Dr Cian Hughes will either be ‘erased’ from the medical register, or be given a suspension, when a medical tribunal panel gives its decision this morning (Wednesday) on what sanction should be applied for a series of serious breaches of guidelines.

The Irish doctor admitted having an evolving friendship with the girl, known only as ‘Patient A’, which began back in March 2011 when she was a 13-year-old patient at Bristol’s Children’s Hospi