A plastic surgeon who claimed his then-wife used coercive control to force him to operate on her and prescribe her opioids has been reprimanded and fined $25,000 after protracted disciplinary proceedings.

The surgeon’s legal drama began over five years ago, when the Queensland Health Ombudsman referred him to a state tribunal for prescribing controlled drugs to his wife and two stepsons.

The prescriptions for his spouse were issued over a three-year period and included pethidine, oxycodone, codeine, morphine sulphate, hydro morphine and benzodiazepine.

At a hearing in June, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal also heard the surgeon had operated on his wife, revising scars on her chest and chin and performing bilateral lipectomy on her arms.