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A family doctor charged the Night Home Service (NHS) more than ￡ 500,000 in seven years for night visits that his patients did not need, a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing was told yesterday.
Jagdeep Gossain charged for up to 540 emergency call-outs a month, increasing his annual salary to close to ￡200,000 a year and using almost a third of the local health authority's out-of-hours GP budget.
Dr Gossain, 46, had a target list of about 100 patients in his practice at Fulham, southwest London, whom he used repeatedly on claim forms to Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority.
Nearly all emergency visits conducted by the doctor, who often made up to 40 calls a night, were "clinically inappropriate". He had also duped the GMC into postponing his hearing, before the professional conduct committee, four times by claiming that his bad back made him unfit to attend, Sarah Plaschkes, for the GMC, said.
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Ms Plaschkes added: "The council submits that Dr Gossain deliberately, dishonestly deceived this professional body by pretending he was too ill to attend the heating when, in fact, he was at a leisure centre."
Between May 1990 and April 1998 he claimed an "inordinate and extraordinary number" of night visits, she said. The average GP makes 50 emergency night calls a year. In September 1997 alone Dr Gossain put in 542 claims.
Ms Plaschkes alleged that it was unjustifiable reward in the sum of about ￡500,000 from the public purse. Dr Gossain's claims escalated over the years. In 1991 he claimed￡1,000; by 1995 the sum had risen to more than ￡75,000, peaking in 1996 at almost￡160,000. Over the seven-year period he allegedly fleeced the NHS of ￡514,593.
In 1998 he claimed ~ 124,591, when the average GP in his health authority claimed￡670. Dr Gossain is accused of doing so many night visits that he "could not have provided adequate care and attention" for the patients he visited. It is also said that his ability to provide competent daytime services "was compromised".
Dr Gossain denies serious professional misconduct but, if found guilty, could be struck off the medical register.
A BBC Panorama investigation found that his three children went to private school and he drove a Mercedes with private number plates. His wife, Shashi, a pharmacist, has said that his only crime was to have been a workaholic. The hearing continues.

单选题 For what was the doctor in the passage charged?

单选题 Why did the professional conduct committee delay its heating of the case under question?

单选题 The phrase "call-outs" in the passage is used to ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[分析] 词义题型第一段第一句提到：A family doctor charged the Night Home Service(NHS)more than￡500，000 in seven years for night visits that his patients did not need, ...(一个家庭医生被指控在七年时间里由于病人本不需要的夜间出诊收取夜间出诊服务费多达500，000多镑……)，第二段第一句谈到：Jagdeep Gossain charged for up to 540 emergency call-outs a month，(这位名叫Jagdeep Gossain的医生被指控一个月做了540次紧急call-outs)，因此答案为C。

单选题 The abbreviation of "GP" in the passage can probably mean ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[分析] 词义题型本文第一、二段提及一名医生遭指控，因为他为并不需要的夜间出诊收取夜间出诊服务费且由此使自己的年收入上升到接近200，000镑；这一数额几乎是当地卫生当局对加班GP预算的三分之一；第七段第二句提到：The average GP makes 50 emergency night calls a year. (一般GP一年会有50次紧急夜间出诊)；因此GP应是指医生，所以选项 A(全科医师)为答案。

单选题 In the statement of "a General Medical Council disciplinary hearing", the synonym to the word "hearing" is ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[分析] 词义题型第一段提及：昨天一个General Medical Council disciplinary hearing透露了一个医生被指控……；在第四段第二句：He had also duped the GMC into postponing his hearing, before the professional conduct committee, four times by claiming that his bad back made him unfit to attend，(他还欺骗了GMC这个专业行为委员会，使之将对他的hearing延期了四次，因他谎称他受损的后背使他无法出席)，由此得知专业委员会对这个医生做的是official inquiry(正式质询)，选项A为答案。

单选题 What is the name of the place where the doctor's NHS practice is done?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[分析] 细节题型见第三段：Dr Gossain, 46, had a target list of about 100 patients in his practice at Fulham, southwest London, whom he used repeatedly on claim forms to Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow Health Authority. (46岁的Dr Gossain在位于伦敦西南他开业的Fulham有着约 100名左右的服务对象，但他却一再地向Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow的卫生当局填表申领为他们服务的费用。)因此选项C为答案。