Another surgical scandal

Yet another health trust is having to conduct enquiries after it was found that a surgeon who is still employed by them but no longer opperating carried out unnessercary mastectomies. In this case it was complicated by the trust sending women to a private clinic which this surgeon owned and ran, not only was there a clear conflict of interest, but how can this sort of things be undetected for so long? I know the only difference between god and a consultant is that god dosen't think he can practice medicine, but the arrogance and lack of care towards women is shocking. 

Another thing, whilst you do hear of people being opperated on wrongly, does it seems to be overwhelmingly women who are mutilated by the medical profession? 

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  • It seems incredible to me that someone can carry on killing and mutilating with nobody really noticing, or if they do then not doing anything about it.

    I get that some surgeons have a higher death rate of patients because they're doing riskier surgeries, but to many of these scandals seem to relate to fairly normal surgical procedures.

    I also think we need a register of hospital trust management, to many go from one failing trust to another, I think there should be a way of ensuring that people who mismanage, rundown and put reputation above safety never work in a hospital environment again.

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