Tribunal told NHS staff were bullied by surgeon
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Your support makes all the difference.A consultant surgeon carried out two operations on private patients when he should have been tied to NHS duties, a tribunal was told yesterday.
The General Medical Council's disciplinary committee heard that Michael Gray, 42, from Ashford, Kent performed the operations in November 1999 while working as an on-duty surgeon for East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust.
In the first, he was said to have asked members of an NHS team to help him remove a large bowel tumour. In the second, it was said he caused two accidental tears to a patient's small bowel, which were subsequently repaired in surgery. Then another hole was found. The patient later died from respiratory problems and other complications.
The hearing continues.
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