A surgeon, who has been likened to ‘Dr Death’ in Parliament, has requested an opportunity to clear his name. 

Dr William Braun said his reputation had been “dragged through the mud” to further a political agenda after Queensland LNP MP Ros Bates made a series of speeches detailing misconduct allegations against him in the state’s parliament in February, March and April.

In those speeches, Ms Bates said she had been “inundated with more and more issues” about Dr Braun’s conduct from patients and doctors, and described the case as a matter of public interest. 

Some of the allegations included inappropriately touching female colleagues and physically intimidating staff.