Daily Mail

Breast surgeon butcher banned

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A DISGRACED surgeon with a ‘God complex’ jailed for carrying out thousands of unnecessar­y procedures on breast cancer patients to line his own pockets has been struck off.

Ian Paterson was imprisoned for 15 years in May after wrecking hundreds of lives through his bungled breast surgery at private hospitals in the West Midlands.

And a Medical Practition­er’s Tribunal in Manchester has now ruled the 59-year-old ‘deceived patients, and fellow profession­als alike’ as it removed him from the medical register.

General Medical Council chief executive Charlie Massey welcomed the result and said the GMC would ‘leave no stone unturned’ to learn lessons from the case.

Mr Massey added: ‘His terrible actions went unchecked for too long because managers and colleagues had their concerns but did not speak up.

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