A doctor has admitted to taking skin samples from patients and failing to pass them to scientists for diagnosis.
A five-day Medical Practitioners Tribunal into the conduct of Dr Harry Dye began in Manchester yesterday.
The Aberdeenshire doctor is accused of 15 counts of misconduct between September 2015 and March 2016, including failing to send biopsy samples of lesions, moles and possible tumours to a laboratory in a timely manner.
In a number of cases he did not make any records of having performed the biopsies on the patients.
He has also admitted, for all 15 of the cases, to taking no action to arrange for the samples to be analysed.
The tribunal chair, Paul Moulder, said: “By reason of the matters set out above your fitness to practise is impaired because of your misconduct.”
The panel will now decide on what sanction, if any, will be imposed.
