Doctor struck off after leaving patient in 'uncontrollable pain' following botched operation

A doctor who wrongly connected a young man's organs, which meant his bowel contents were re-deposited into his stomach, has been struck off the medical register. 

The error, which was described as "not compatible with life", left the patient in "uncontrollable pain", a misconduct hearing of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard.

Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon, carried out the emergency bowel procedure on the young man at the Royal Oldham Hospital.

But he got it so badly wrong that the contents of the patient's bowel were deposited back into his stomach through a circular "closed loop", the MPTS heard.

The patient could have died had another surgeon not corrected the error in a second operation, the hearing in Manchester was told.

Dr Rahman's procedure was described as "not known to man" and his error "as bad as it gets" by a former consultant general and colorectal surgeon, who acted as the General Medical Council's expert witness.

Despite the concerns of the patient's parents and other medics, Dr Rahman at no time considered that something may have gone wrong surgically, the tribunal heard.

Dr Rahman, who qualified in 1993 from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, did not attend the hearing and was not legally represented.

He claimed he had been made a "scapegoat" after a "witch hunt" following the operation in August 2020.

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The MPTS imposed an order restricting his work as a doctor in July of the following year, but Dr Rahman broke the conditions of the order as he then applied for and secured a job as a locum at Affidea Express Care Clinic in Ireland in February 2022, the tribunal found.

This breach of the order imposed on his work was an "aggravating" feature, the tribunal ruled, to already "significant" errors in surgery and post-op care, the hearing was told.

The tribunal concluded in a ruling last month that Dr Rahman's misconduct was "fundamentally incompatible with continued registration" and erased him from the medical register which had allowed him to work as a doctor.

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