The doctor who raised the alarm about triple murderer Erin Patterson in the days after she served a deadly lunch to her former relatives has been disciplined by the country's medical regulator for his public comments after her conviction.

Chris Webster was working as a visiting doctor at the Leongatha Hospital when Patterson presented with gastro-like symptoms on July 31, 2023.

Dr Webster gave evidence in the nearly three-month trial in May this year about his shock at Patterson discharging herself from hospital after 5 minutes and his subsequent triple-0 call. Loading...

In the days following the verdict, Dr Webster described Patterson as a "crazy bitch", "sociopathic" and, in an interview with 7.30 , described her actions as having "an element of sociopathic evil".

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