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Thu 09 Sep 2010Surgeon should have checked X-rays, hearing told
THE SURGEON who removed a healthy kidney from an eight-year-old boy should have checked the X-rays when he saw the kidney was not diseased, an expert witness told a fitness-to-practise hearing yesterday.
Robert Wheeler, a consultant paediatric surgeon and expert witness for the Irish Medical Council, also said when the boy’s parents raised their concerns about which kidney was to be removed it should have been “a red flag” to the surgeon.
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