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Colleague of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns two decades ago, inquest hears

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Colleague of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns two decades ago, inquest hears

Colleague of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns two decades ago, inquest hears

Paterson is serving a 20-year sentence for wounding after being found guilty in 2017 of carrying out unnecessary and damaging breast cancer operations

A colleague of the disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson raised concerns about him carrying out “incomplete” breast cancer operations two decades ago, an inquest has heard.

A judge-led inquest into the deaths of 62 of Paterson’s former patients commenced at Birmingham and Solihull coroner’s court on Tuesday, and is to be one of the biggest inquests in British history.

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