Dr Hatem El-Hetw was brought before the General Medical Council after being accused of series of serious errors of clinical judgement while trying to deliver the child at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, in December, 2004.
As a senior maternity doctor on the night shift, he spent almost an hour trying to deliver the baby using a suction cup six times and then forceps before performing a caesarean.
The GMC panel said he should have abandoned the suction cup after the third attempt. He should not have surgically widened the birth canal or attempted a forceps delivery.
The mother had already endured an 18-hour labour before the attempts, with little progress, and needed three pints of blood after the birth. Her child suffered a severe brain injury and was transferred to the special care baby unit.
Dr El-Hetw altered a retrospective note on the attempted delivery, the panel found.
When bosses decided to supervise his work and put him through an external assessment, he took compassionate leave to be with his sick mother in Egypt and later resigned.
He then failed to mention his four-month stint at the hospital when he applied for a job at the Countess of Chester Hospital.
The panel, which met in Manchester, was satisfied that through the omission he was `deliberately attempting to conceal the truth'.
Dr El-Hetw has been suspended from the medical register.
He will be erased from it within 28 days on grounds of `misconduct' and `dishonesty', unless he lodges an appeal with the High Court.
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