Flour fight suspension
A therapist has been suspended after she had a flour fight with a patient.
Whi le employed by Cheswold Park Hospital in Doncaster, Yorkshire, Becky Jones and the male patient were discovered in a kitchen covered in flour.
It was one of five incidents that led the Health and Care Professions Tribunal in London to suspend Jones for 12 months.
Instead, it led to his career as one of the nation’s top transplant surgeons.
David was 12 when an accident on Guy Fawkes Night left him with serious burns and he had to spend weeks as a patient in Glasgow’s Western Infirmary.
Instead of being upset, David was fascinated by everything he saw. Just over a decade later, he returned to the same hospital as a young doctor and spent most of his 45-year career in the NHS working in the same buildbuilding where he was treated.
DDav id , now 80, said: “I had f irewireworks in my jackejacket and decided to rrescue more f romro another boboy’s box that wawas on fire. “IaIadded these to my cocollection, not realisingrealisin a fuse was bburning. ThThey blastedbl through my clothes, giving me a fullthickness burn on my abdomen.
“I was sent by ambulance to the Western Infirmary and had to stay there for quite a time as I needed skin grafting.
“I took a great interest in all that was going on and in the evening I could peek into the theatre and its viewing gallery. To me, it was a magic place.
“I didn’t just decide I wanted to be a surgeon but, because of the skin graft I needed, I realised people were beginning to take tissue from somewhere – and even someone – else.
“I became fascinated by the science of it and went on to make it my career at that very hospital.”
As a k idney transplant surgeon, David helped save and transform the lives of hundreds of people suffering from kidney disease. He also carried out research with the Br itish biologist known as the “father of
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