A doctor who helped blow the whistle on disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson warned a hospital boss that "lawyers would have a field day" if Paterson's patients complained.
Dr Hemant Ingle, who worked at Solihull Hospital, wrote a letter to the hospital's clinical director Dr Misra Budhoo in 2007, regarding his distress at Paterson's treatment of Marie Pinfield.
Pinfield, who died of metastatic breast cancer in 2008 after it spread to her lungs, had asked for a bilateral mastectomy, to leave her with a completely flat chest.
However after two mastectomies from Paterson, Pinfield was still left with B to C cup breasts.
An inquest into Pinfield's death is taking place this week, one of 68 which aim to determine whether former patients of Paterson died unnatural deaths because of his care.
The former surgeon is serving a 20-year jail term after being convicted of multiple counts of wounding in 2017 through botched and unnecessary operations on patients.
Warning: This article contains images of post-surgery scarring
On Tuesday, the inquest saw Ingle's letter to Budhoo, in which he said the results of Pinfield's surgery were "appalling".
He said he was sure that the two-month wait from diagnosis to her first mastectomy contributed to her cancer increasing from 3cm to 5.1cm (1.2 to 2 inches), asking: "Why was that allowed to happen?"
Ingle added: "I think delay in her surgery might have made an operable tumour a non-operable one."
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