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04-02-2020, 10:21 PM
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Ian Paterson

Over two decades this surgeon mutilated women, in NHS and private hospitals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...ngham-51369881

Patients were let down by the healthcare system "at every level" said the inquiry chair, retired Bishop of Norwich the Rt Revd Graham James, who identified "multiple individual and organisational failures".
Paterson carried out unnecessary operations, exaggerating or inventing cancer risks and claiming payments for more expensive procedures.

People avoided working with him, so must have had doubts.

In 2003, an NHS colleague first raised concerns, eventually, suspended eight years later.
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04-02-2020, 10:46 PM
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Re: Ian Paterson

It's amazing Paterson got away with it for so long
He clearly had a dislike and no respect for women
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04-02-2020, 11:09 PM
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He's doing Twenty Years, a high price to pay for whatever, from his prospective.
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05-02-2020, 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by spitfire ->
He's doing Twenty Years, a high price to pay for whatever, from his prospective.


Serves him right, eveil git.
He would have gone on forever otherwise.

If it had been male parts he'd chopped off instead, men would have lynched him before now!

I don't believe for a minute that nobody knew about it either.
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05-02-2020, 10:26 AM
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Re: Ian Paterson

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51380454


Staff working with Paterson thought that his surgical methods were unusual but, perhaps cowed by being ignored after raising concerns, kept their heads down.

Add to that the power and status of a surgeon in the medical world and, in the words of the report, Paterson was "hiding in plain sight". It's clearly impossible to eliminate the activities of determined criminals in any profession.
The public and private health systems did not compare notes about suspicious behaviour by a consultant.

First thing that needs to change, obviously.
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It is a truly shocking case, that man should never be let out of prison.
 



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