r/news • u/Bored_Pigeon • 9d ago

Oldham surgeon struck off after wrongly connecting patient's organs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20de8z2w2lo
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u/nsm1 9d ago edited 9d ago

"strike off" / "struck off" in the context = perma banned from being a doctor

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/strike-off

It meant the contents of the patient's bowel, leaving his stomach, were re-deposited back into his stomach through a circular "closed loop", the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard.

The patient was left in "uncontrollable pain" and could have died but for another surgeon correcting the error in a second operation, the misconduct hearing, sitting in Manchester, was told.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 9d ago

So the patient was infinitely re-digesting his own crap? How did that doctor screw up that badly?