British surgeon operated on 450 healthy women

In the UK sparked one of the largest in recent decades, medical scandals. It became known that a cancer surgeon Ian Paterson made not less than 450 transactions of the mammary glands of women that surgery is absolutely not needed.





We will focus on the operations of the partial mastectomy, which conducted unfair, the surgeon women who are not of a malignant tumor. Even worse is that the rest of the 700 women with breast cancer, he had a poor-quality operation is not performed complete excision of the tissue of the glands, with the result that some patients had a relapse of the disease.

Moreover, Paterson operated on for no reason women were prescribed chemotherapy with serious side effect.





The scandal began when one of the patients Patterson, passed secondary examination from another doctor. It turned out that she was under the constant threat of cancer's return because of bad surgery "surgeon hack".

Today, the courts are demanding monetary compensation asked for more than a hundred injured patients Patterson.





Everything else, Ian Paterson told the insurance companies about information on the degree of difficulty of operation, and in some cases included in the report and in advance about the data on operations are not conducted. So to investigate joined the British police and now this doctor threatens not only the deprivation of the license, but also imprisonment.

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