The NHS whistleblower whose evidence helped put butcher surgeon Ian Paterson behind bars has revealed that he was threatened with the sack for daring to question the reckless treatment of women whose lives were eventually ruined.
Paterson had misdiagnosed cancer in healthy patients and performed unnecessary and damaging surgery including unregulated ‘cleavage-sparing’ mastectomies. Convicted on 17 counts of wounding with intent, he was jailed for 20 years in 2017.
Now speaking for the first time about his battle to expose one of Britain’s biggest medical scandals, breast surgeon Hemant Ingle, has told the Mail on Sunday, he had first tried to challenge Paterson a full ten years before he was finally jailed in 2017.
Ingle, a junior consultant at the time, had become concerned the senior consultant was putting patients at risk by carrying out inappropriate reconstruction surgery and partial mastectomies that left breast tissue behind. Some patients subsequently died.
In an interview ahead of a new ITV documentary broadcast tonight [Sunday], called Bodies of Evidence: The Butcher Surgeon, Ingle said: ‘He [Paterson] would railroad through [hospital] meetings, saying this is how the treatment is going to be. But so many times I felt he was advising patients’ reconstruction surgery unnecessarily. We fought at almost every meeting.’
Ingle’s suspicions were confirmed when Paterson asked him to perform breast reconstruction surgery on one of his female patients when he was on...
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