A surgeon faces being thrown out of the medical pr

A surgeon faces being thrown out of the medical profession today (Fri) after he was found guilty of appalling errors in three operations.

Nalini Senchaudhuri left one woman walking with sticks after a procedure to straighten toes went disastrously wrong.

A male patient was unable to lift his arm after receiving treatment to a damaged shoulder from
Senchaudhuri.

The General Medical Council heard how the surgeon also watched as a junior colleague he was training training drilled five holes in a woman’s thigh bone when only one was needed.

Senchaudhuri was found guilty of carrying out ‘inadequate and inappropriate’ surgery on two patients and performing an inadequate operation on the third.

He was cleared of two further allegations of blunders in the operating theatre by the GMC’s conduct committee.

The hearing was told how Senchaudhuri attempted to straighten Carole Sowerby’s toe during an operation at Bishops Auckland Hospital in 1994.

Senchaudhuri performed a completely different procedure to the one which had been agreed, opting for an operation likely to cause problems.

Mrs Sowerby told the hearing earlier this week that since the operation she has had to walk with the aid of a stick, has her foot strapped in a bandage and cannot wear high-heeled shoes.

Later that same year the surgeon operated on Kevin Marley to repair a damaged shoulder.

The surgery was so badly performed Mr Marley could not raise his arm and had to travel to Scotland for corrective treatment.

Five years later, while working at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Senchaudhuri shocked colleagues when he took and hour to insert a screw into Joan Bond’s hip – a procedure which should have taken just five minutes.

Staff were so concerned that a junior doctor eventually took over and finished the job successfully.

Senchaudhuri was today found guilty of the allegations against him in those three cases after committee chairman John Shaw said the patient’s evidence had been accepted.

The doctor was cleared of incompetence during two other operations.

Glennis Todd claimed he had failed to wait for an anaesthetic to take effect before giving her an epidural injection at Bishops Auckland in 1994.

It was also claimed he took six hours to insert screws into the leg of car crash victim Kim Hunt later that same year.

Senchaudhuri, of Du Cane Court, Balham High Road, south London, denies the three cases proved against him amount to serious professional misconduct.

He is due to learn his fate later this afternoon.

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