Wollongong Hospital anaesthetist caught drunk allowed to return to work after mid-operation disappearance

By Harriet Alexander
Updated July 1 2016 - 6:14pm, first published 1:17pm
Wollongong Hospital, where an anaesthetist disappeared from an operation, only to be discovered severely intoxicated.  Photo: Kirk Gilmour
Wollongong Hospital, where an anaesthetist disappeared from an operation, only to be discovered severely intoxicated. Photo: Kirk Gilmour

A public hospital anaesthetist who was found in a drunken stupor after abandoning a patient mid-operation has been conditionally allowed to return to work just six weeks after the incident.