Dr Ratna Ghosh, a GP who worked at Charlestown and Wallsend, also wrote prescriptions for herself and her husband in the name of a close relative, and prescribed inappropriate quantities and types of medications to a teenager with severe Autism Spectrum Disorder.

They included Panadeine Forte in combination with anti-nausea medications usually used to prevent vomittng caused by chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as well as a diuretic, antibiotics, anti-psychotics, and Lomotil.

She also prescribed penicillin to a toddler who she knew was allergic. When the father reminded her about the allergy she said words to the effect of, "No, it will be fine."

At a NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) hearing, Dr Ghosh blamed her employer for the complaints subsequently made by the parents.

In the case of the whooping cough vaccine, she told the woman who was 33 weeks pregnant in August of 2017 that there was no evidence it was safe and that it "could kill babies".

"Only people in western countries get it which is why there are so many deformed babies," she told the patient.

Dr Ghosh told an inquiry that in the late stages of pregnancy, women can get "very agitated and touchy" and that the patient was possibly "having some psychosis of pregnancy or an anger issue."

"For a doctor to make an unjustified possible diagnosis of psychosis is a serious mater indeed," a member of the NCAT panel said.

After being fired from a Wallsend clinic in September 2017, the woman wrote 17 anonymous reviews about her former employer on the Rate MDs website, in which she claimed he was running a 'sham clinic', running a 'butchery, and accusing him of fraternising with terrorists.

She said he regularly went to 'brothels' when he should have been at work, and killed an unborn child by injecting a pregnant woman with "dangerous vaccines".

The reviews, which she denied writing, were traced back to her via her IP address and the type of computer she was using, as well as some of the content.

Three psychiatrists who prepared reports for the Tribunal found Dr Ghosh had a personality disorder, with an excessive sensitivity to setbacks, and that she deflects responsibility for her actions by blaming others.

They found she lacks empathy and exhibits arrogant behaviours and haughty attitudes, "those being evidence of narcissistic personality traits with a grandiose sense of self-importance'.

Dr Ghosh completed a Bachelor of Medicine/Surgery at the University of Western Australia in 1989 and was registered to practise in NSW in 1992.

The tribunal has ordered this week that if Dr Ghosh were still registered, her registration would be cancelled for at least three years. She will need to apply to the tribunal for a review of those orders.

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