UK Tribunal Strikes Off Surgeon After 2020 Bowel Operation and 2022 Restrictions Breach
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 4
UK Tribunal Strikes Off Surgeon After 2020 Bowel Operation and 2022 Restrictions Breach
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 4
Summary
A medical tribunal erased Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman from the register after finding his misconduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued practice.
The case centered on a 25 August 2020 emergency bowel operation at Royal Oldham Hospital that left a young patient in uncontrollable pain after bowel contents were routed back into his stomach in a closed loop.
An expert witness told the hearing the procedure was "not known to man" and "as bad as it gets," adding the patient could have died without a second surgeon correcting the error.
The tribunal also found Rahman ignored concerns from the patient's parents and other medics, and later breached a July 2021 restrictions order by taking a locum job in Ireland in February 2022.
That breach was treated as an aggravating factor, sealing the tribunal's decision last month to remove the Egypt-trained NHS locum surgeon from practice.
How did a restricted surgeon cross borders to practice again after performing an emergency bowel operation deemed "not known to man"?
What hidden systemic loopholes allowed such a catastrophic, life-threatening anatomical error to bypass standard hospital safety checks during surgery?
Could the surgeon's claim of a "witch hunt" point to deeper, unaddressed fatigue and understaffing crises within emergency medical wards?