Colorectal surgeon used unconscious patient as a prop for a joke: tribunal
It said the doctor photographed the anaesthetist touching a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ rectal tumour
A colorectal surgeon who cracked jokes while photographing his anaesthetist colleague feeling an unconscious patient’s rectal tumour has been suspended for three-months.
The incident, which the surgeon later said was the result of a “brain explosion”, occurred four years ago when he discovered a rectal mass and a significant amount of blood mid-colonoscopy to the point where the procedure was called off early.
