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A doctor who cut his wife’s throat open with a knife while she experienced cocaine toxicity is seeking compensation and his medical licence to be reinstated.
Sleep and respiratory specialist, Peter Spencer, voluntarily surrendered his medical licence for five days in January 2015 over the death of his wife, Mayumi, 29, and is yet to receive it back.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) claim they can not return the licence as legal proceedings are still ongoing into his wife’s death.
He was referred to prosecutors by the coroner for negligent manslaughter after he cut open his wife’s throat and didn’t call paramedics for three hours.
In 2020, Spencer launched legal action against AHPRA claiming $300,000 in compensation for lost wages and for his licence to be reinstated.
Spencer applied to have his licence returned in early 2020, only to be told again the agency could not reinstate while investigations were ongoing.
‘They have not processed my application despite taking payment on 15/01/2020, continually delaying the application while not processing it,’ documents revealed by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal reads.
The doctor turned life-coach had requested the tribunal to process his request for action as soon as possible because he said he was needed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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