Guilty of wounding with intent on all charges. ibid.
Arrogant, aggressive and a bully. ibid.
In many cases there was nothing wrong with them. ibid.
Hundreds of thousands of us are now using private hospitals. We assume it’s as safe as the NHS but is that true? We investigate the worrying lack of information about private health care, the potential conflicts of interest, and how private hospitals can avoid paying compensation when things go wrong. Panorama: How Safe is Your Operation? BBC 2017
[Ian] Paterson chose the most expensive procedures. ibid.
How simple medical devices have left thousands of women in total agony. American manufacturers have made huge profits but are now paying out millions of dollars in damages … One of the world’s biggest medical companies failed to warn doctors about the extent of the risks. And how permanent mesh implants were put inside women before long-term human studies were completed. Panorama: The Operation that Ruined My Life, BBC 2017
Now they are inside millions of women worldwide. ibid.
Ethicon is part of the multi-billion-dollar company Johnson & Johnson. ibid.
The word ‘experimental’ was dropped. ibid.
The implants that put patients at risk. Millions of people in the UK have a medical device inside them. But these products aren’t always adequately tested. We reveal how potentially dangerous devices get inside our bodies. And how our secretive system of regulation fails to protect patients. Panorama: The Great Implant Scandal, BBC 2018
24-year-old college student Jaime Sherman is given a heart transplant … Surgery leaves her with bewildering after-effects … Her body seems to have a mind of its own … Around the world hundreds of organ recipients have reported disturbing experiences … All over the world organ transplant recipients claim they have received the memories and characteristics of their donors. The Unexplained Files s2e10: Voodoo Zombies & Life After Death, Science 2014
Hundreds of women lied to and betrayed by a man whose job it was to save their lives. Ian Paterson was a surgeon who preyed on the most vulnerable: patients terrified they had breast cancer. But he hid a dark and terrible secret: he was a doctor who exaggerated risk, carried out needless operations and brutally disfigured women’s bodies. Tonight: The Butcher Surgeon: A Scandal Uncovered, ITV 2017
Paterson is now serving twenty years behind bars. ibid.
He was operating on women who didn’t even have cancer. ibid.
Millions affected by knee and hip pain. The long wait for treatment. An operation can be life-changing. But is replacement surgery the only option? Tonight: Knees & Hips: Britain’s Biggest Queue? ITV 2023
I’m Annie Price and I’ve lived my whole life with burns’ scars … I’m in Seoul, South Korea – this is a city where 60% of people in their twenties have had plastic surgery. Plastic Surgery Capital of the World, BBC 2017
People come here from all over the world to be operated on – and Koreans have had more procedures than anyone … The doctors here specialise in face surgery. ibid.
Every year some 3,000,000 major operations are carried out in the UK. But few of us will know what really happens once we’re put to sleep. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life I, BBC 2018
Maxillofacial: Removal of facial cancer and facial reconstruction: a single operation so difficult and complex it could last over twelve hours. ibid.
‘Having someone’s fate in your hands is terrifying.’ ibid. surgeon
Sarcoma: Removal of retroperitoneal liposarcoma … Rare cancerous tumors that can grow to huge sizes. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life II: Last Chance Saloon
‘You have to be jolly careful you don’t bugger it up really.’ ibid. surgeon
Using new technology and pioneering skills there are treating conditions that used to kill. This is surgery at its most experimental. Surgeons: At the Edge of Life III: The Pioneers
Deaths by liver disease have soared by 40% in a decade. And more and more patients are waiting for life-saving liver transplants. ibid.
Before you’re born they use medical devices to find out when you’re gonna be born. When you’re born they use medical devices to find out how healthy you are. When you’re growing up oftimes they use medical devices to enhance what’s going on with you. Medical devices are a way of life in America. The Bleeding Edge, 2018
‘The medical device industry is a three-hundred-billion a year industry. This is big business.’ ibid. Dr Michael Carome, director Public Citizen Health Research Group
‘The device industry has much more power than Pharma.’ ibid. expert
‘Over the past ten years nearly 70 million Americans have been implanted with medical devices.’ ibid. Jeanne Lenzer, The Danger Within Us
‘I felt it go into my tube … It was pretty intense. After the procedure I was running fevers a lot, the bleeding was almost continual … a sharp stabbing pain …’ ibid. essure device victim
‘The history of medical devices is odd: there was an explosion in the 1920s and ’30s and ’40s of fraudulent devices …’ ibid. William Hubbard, former FDA associate commissioner
‘Most people probably believe when they get a medical device they implant it, be it a pacemaker or a joint, that those medical devices have undergone appropriate testing to demonstrate that they are safe and effective before they came on the market and doctors started using them. But for more moderate and high risk devices that is not the case.’ ibid. Dr Michael Carome
There have been more than 800 failed pregnancies associated with Essure. ibid.
Medical companies paid doctors more than £2 billion in 2016. ibid.
‘Welcome to the business.’ ibid. sales rep
Women with Essure experienced sterilization failure seven times more often than women who had their tubes tied. ibid. Bouillon, Bertrand, Bader et al 2018
CT scan overdose and overuse gives 50,000 Americans every year. ibid. Korley, Pham et al 2009
She is undergoing her operation using hypnosis as the only anaesthetic. Can she rely on the power of her mind to transport her to another place, a place without pain? In Search of s2e17 … Hypnosis, 1978
The object remarkably resembles an egg, white, oval and nestled perfectly inside the patient’s stomach. And if it is an egg, what’s going to hatch? The Proof is Out There s2e4, History 2022
He was considered the best breast surgeon in Birmingham. But he was hiding a dark secret. Until he was caught. With thousands of possible victims. His patients are still searching for answers. Bodies of Evidence: The Butcher Surgeon, ITV 2022
Paterson operated out of two private hospitals: Parkway and Little Aston … Patterson was allowed to carry out in both the NHS and private practice. ibid.
Paterson was found guilty of seventeen counts of wounding with intent. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison. ibid.