The doctor who alerted police to triple murderer Erin Patterson, sensationally calling her a “crazy b****” and a “disturbed sociopathic nut bag” in an interview, has been sanctioned by the medical regulator.
Dr Christopher Webster was a doctor at the Leongatha Hospital in Victoria, where Patterson presented two days after serving her lethal lunch of beef wellington in July 2023.
Webster made the now-famous triple-0 call after Patterson discharged herself from hospital, requesting police conduct a welfare check.
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He also served as a medical witness at Patterson’s 10-week murder trial.
After Patterson was found guilty, Webster sat down for an interview with the Herald Sun, where he called her a “crazy b****” and a “disturbed sociopathic nut bag”.
Following the interview, Webster received numerous formal complaints for unprofessional behaviour, with the doctor telling Daily Mail Australia he was also labelled a “misogynist”.
On Wednesday, The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) imposed two conditions on Webster’s registration.
The first sanction requires Webster to complete one-on-one education with an approved educator for a minimum of eight hours, addressing topics such as professionalism and ethics, professional communication, privacy and confidentiality.
The second condition requires Webster undertake mentoring on the appropriate use and disclosure of private and confidential information, professionalism and ethics, for a minimum of five one-hour sessions a month.
AHPRA said on its website that a “condition aims to restrict a practitioner’s practice in some way, to protect the public”.
“Conditions can be placed on a practitioner’s registration for disciplinary reasons, such as because a National Board has found that a practitioner has departed from accepted professional standards,” the website reads.
The medical board also requested Webster be educated on his use of social media.
Following the fallout from his Daily Mail Australia interview in July, Webster remained unapologetic for his remarks.
“I stand by what I’ve done, this is very important,” he told Daily Mail Australia at the time.
“I’m happy to do all the media, but it’s become all too much now, and I have engaged a lawyer and now gagged from any future media (in the short term).
“It’s one thing copping these accusations on social media and Instagram, but now it’s formal complaints.
“I need to get home and back to work and sort this out, and once things are sorted, I will speak again.”
Webster’s triple-0 call
During Patterson’s murder trial, the triple-0 phone call Webster made to the police was heard.
“This is Dr Chris Webster calling from Leongatha Hospital and I have a concern regarding a patient that presented here earlier and has left the building and is potentially exposed (to) a toxin from mushroom poisoning, and I’ve tried several times to get hold of her on her mobile phone,” he said on the call.
“The last name is Patterson. Erin.”
In the conversation that followed, Webster told the operator that “five people ate a meal on Saturday and two of them are in intensive care at Dandenong Hospital”.
“Two have just been transferred from Leongatha Hospital to Dandenong Hospital, and Erin presented this morning with symptoms of poisoning,” he said.
The operator asked what happened when Patterson presented.
“It was time for the nurse to begin observations, and I was managing the other critically unwell patients,” he said.
“I had a brief chat to her about where the mushrooms were obtained, and while I was attending (to) the other patients, nurses informed me that she had discharged herself against medical advice.”
On September 8, Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 33 years for three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
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