Moonlighting Consultants
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Consultants distracted from their main duties
I received through Freedom to Care a letter from a former patient who had suffered injury during an operation when the consultant had performed a long list of operations when he was jet-lagged after returning from delivering a series of lectures in America. The consultant denied responsibility for the injury, stating wrongly that it existed before the operation. I now hear that the consultant is refusing to give an appointment to sort out the problem resulting from the initial surgery. In five years he saw the patient once and cancelled four appointments. The operation resulted in incontinence. The tablets prescribed for incontinence produced symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease. The same correspondent refers to a friend who developed a Grade IV brain tumour before it was diagnosed. The same patient is housebound and not receiving community care services. |
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Sheila
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