Raj Persaud, 45, consultant psychiatrist, broadcaster and prolific author, told a misconduct hearing of the GMC in Manchester yesterday that he had passed off other researchers' work as his own in books and articles. He admitted his actions were "inappropriate" and "misleading".
However, Dr Persaud, who made his name as resident psychiatrist on the daytime TV show This Morning in the 1990s and later as presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme All in the Mind, denied that he had been dishonest or behaved in a way liable to bring the profession into disrepute. If found guilty, he could be struck off.
His defence counsel is expected to argue that where plagiarism occurred it was accidental, owing to omitted references or errors in the editing process.