Consultant felt rogue surgeon’s mastectomies were ‘not adequate’, inquest hears

Library image. Ian Paterson. Credit: PA Wire/PA Images

By Stephanie Wareham, PA Media

A colleague of rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns that the mastectomies he was carrying out on cancer patients were “not adequate” but did not report him to the General Medical Council, an inquest has heard.

Consultant plastic surgeon Fazel Fatah, who carried out breast reconstructions after Paterson performed mastectomies on patients at the City Hospital in Birmingham on four occasions, said he requested not to work with him any more after becoming suspicious of the disgraced surgeon’s technique.