Gynaecologist is suspected of performing dozens of unnecessary oophorectomies

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Gynaecologist is suspected of performing dozens of unnecessary oophorectomies

Owen Dyer

¹ London

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The obstetrician and gynaecologist at the centre of Ireland’sworst case of medical misconduct may have harmed more patientsthan previously thought, a new report by two leading Britishexperts has found.

Michael Neary of County Louth was struck off by the Irish MedicalCouncil in 2003 and became the subject of an Irish governmentinquiry in 2004.

That inquiry, led by Judge Maureen Harding-Clarke, concludedthat Dr Neary had carried out 188 peripartum hysterectomiesat Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, over 25 years untilhis suspension in 1999. An average consultant obstetrician wouldperform about five or six such operations in an entire career.

The new report, commissioned by the Dublin based support groupPatient Focus, was authored by Roger Clements, a private gynaecologist,and Richard Porter, a gynaecologist at the Royal United Hospital,Bath. They found that Dr Neary carried out dozens of unnecessaryoophorectomies, often on . . . [Full text of this article]

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