Doctor who removed ovaries without consent ruled ‘fit to practise’ | ITV News

https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2025-02-14/doctor-who-removed-ovaries-without-consent-ruled-fit-to-practise

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  1. Cant click on the article atm but just going off the headline that is fricking out of order

  2. That show took a massive turn since I stopped watching.

  3. It’s like waking up and finding that your doctor cut off your balls. The medical profession, jeez. What a joke

  4. Interesting that the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service has authority outside the UK.

  5. 100 allegations, 24 proven, but it’s okay, he’s completed a course and other that all of that he’s had an unblemished career.

  7. Simple fact is he should be in prison. Surgery without consent is GBH with Intent. Not to mention the sexual assaults.

  8. > Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri faced more than 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour with 24 instances proven but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled that he has “shown good insight into his failures … and put in place procedures and actions to address his failings to ensure they do not happen again”.

    I’m glad we have such competent overseers in the medical profession. Let us extend this understanding to every industry. 100s of complaints of inappropriate behaviour and causing irreparable damage to people’s bodies? No worries mate, get back in there you cheeky scamp.

    > Touched Patient D’s clitoris

    > Kissed and hugged Patient F on two separate occasions

    > Rubbed and/or touched Patient A’s leg

  9. I think I prefer practice with a C instead of the S before the E

    So to sum it all up, I’ve

  10. I was convinced this was going to be another example where the headline seemed so ridiculous it must be misleading but no, the article, as well as one by the BBC, all state that he:
    – he removed patients ovaries without consent;
    – inappropriately touched patients (hand on leg, claimed he was being friendly but still that’s crossing a line);
    – performed examinations without a chaperone present; and
    – had over 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour with 24 proven, which doesn’t mean the others didn’t happen, just that they weren’t proven.

    All of this was in a three year period 2016-2019. I do not understand how the tribunal allowed him to continue to practice. I wouldn’t allow anyone I know to see this doctor. I’m not sure how the tribunal could decide that “It concluded that a fully informed member of the public, made aware of these factors would be sufficiently satisfied and reassured that Dr Shokouh-Amiri’s responses were appropriate to offset concerns prompted by his misconduct.”

    Unless there’s some pretty astonishing information we’ve not been given, this reasonable member of the public is not sufficiently satisfied and reassured.

  11. Am I correct in thinking that as the incidents took place in guernsey, it falls outside of medical register we have in the UK? For example could someone be struck off here, but practice on the Channel Islands?

  13. Someone needs to have a word with David Tennant, he’s absolutely gone off the rails lately

  14. I was reading through to find some strong medical justification. But there doesn’t seem to be one at all? Is this bad journalism or are they genuinely just letting this guy go with a slap on the wrist?

  15. Care is a joke my mum has just come out of hospital with a compound fracture in two places at 75 years old and on day one of being out of hospital the nurses have told me that I have to readjust the pin height and redress all the pins around the cage daily for 6 months when they should be in her care plan? i’ll do it because I care for my mum but how am I supposed to know what an infection looks like or if something is a miss??? I find it quite funny that to do this job you need a nursing degree yet when they want you to do something it all that goes out the window it’s actually quite laughable to be honest. my mum has literally worked her whole life from 16 never been in hospital aside from having breast cancer and full recovery from that but she’s never been on benefits, always paid into the system and always gone out of her way to help others and now it fucks her over when she needs help, the most.

  16. >Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri faced more than 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour with 24 instances proven
    …
    has an “otherwise unblemished career”

    I know the NHS is struggling for staff, but WTF? Even if the other allegations were proven false, that’s still **TWENTY-FOUR** allegations sustained.

  18. That tribunal seems unfit to practice – something is very wrong with the people who decided women are safe in a room alone with this man.

  19. If he removed one pair of testicles without consent hed already be in jail.

  20. Reminder that doctors believe they are aggressively over regulated and hard done by.

  22. I really wish I didn’t read this article, way to make me not trust Doctors…

  23. I just hope this story is spoken about in Guernsey and that women attending the hospital he works out refuse to see and be treated by him. This is actually horrifying.

  24. I mean, if the operation had no complications?
    We need doctors

  25. It’s alright guys, “he completed a course on professional boundaries”

  26. This could be just straightforward misogyny and incompetence, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the culture war pendulum swing is what is also driving a ruling like this.

    The GMC had one case ruled against them on racism and appear since then to have gone full culture war. It’s not surprising because talking to doctors the GMC seems to be basically an HR organisation, not run by doctors any more, so the actual judgement of cases and the setting up of tribunals is going to be biased and incompetent.

    Foreign trained doctors have negligence referrals more than 3 times higher than British trained medics, and the GMC are claiming that this is entirely down to racism, because it means ethnic minority doctors have a higher chance of being referred. Rather than seeing that ethnic/racial minority status is a proxy for foreign training, which is obviously going to be a factor in some countries on language, corruption and quality of training, they say that any disparity in outcome on race is inherently racism. And they are pressuring hospitals to reduce referrals. I wouldn’t be surprised if the same pressure was occurring here.

    Organisations swing backwards and forwards with ideological capture and in the meantime make bizarre or nonsensical decisions, precisely because they are incompetent and not interested in evidence.

  27. I feel so sorry for the woman who lost her ovaries, even if you go on hormone replacement therapy it will *never* be the same. Women on HRT are usually put on such low doses similar to women in menopause, where the goal is to just stop hot flashes, despite being younger. And Testosterone (which women also produce and need) is generally forgotten about too which worsens fatigue (as does the lack of appropriate levels for the other hormones). I hope she gets a specialist looking after her medical needs.

  28. Whilst he’s been deemed fit to practice, he does have to disclose this investigation to future employers. The MPTS may be happy that he’s not going to do it again, but no sensible employer, even within the NHS, would touch him with a barge pole as he sounds like a liability.

  29. I just can’t figure out why he gets a pass in the UK… I honestly cannot place the reason. I wonder what it could be..

  30. Turned into a horror series then by the sounds of it, bbc that desperate to get views

  31. What on earth would be deemed inappropriate enough for these absolute buffoons to actually strike him off?

  32. The context here is he is a senior doctor and the medical practitioner’s tribunal only punishes junior doctors who can’t afford legal representation.

  33. love how a story about a sexual abuser with potentially victims in the 100s has the first comments being a Dr Who joke. nasty people.

  34. Time lord victorious or something. This is what happens without a companion

  35. So he sexually assaulted several patients but it’s okay because he’s sorry ? What the actual fuck.

  36. Are fit to practice the governing body that makes these rulings?

  37. > Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri **faced more than 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour with 24 instances proven** but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled that he has “shown good insight into his failures … and put in place procedures and actions to address his failings to ensure they do not happen again”.

    > It added that Dr Shokouh-Amiri completed a course on professional boundaries, has an **”otherwise unblemished career”**

    60% of the time, he doesn’t molest patients every time.

  38. > “It concluded that a fully informed member of the public, made aware of these factors would be sufficiently satisfied and reassured that Dr Shokouh-Amiri’s responses were appropriate to offset concerns prompted by his misconduct.”

     

    I’m a guy and fucking no, I would not be *sufficiently satisfied and reassured.* He was touching women up and removing their reproductive organs without discussion, consent, or knowledge. WTAF. I’d rather Sweeney Todd give me a shave. Who gives a toss if he said the right things and appeared to play ball with the investigation; a mea culpa can be very disingenuous and I’m sure the testimonials about his other care with other patients from colleagues was great …. no-ones saying he’s a rampaging monster lopping off limbs for shits and giggles …. but he seems to like touching up women and permanently mutilating them in two instances at least…..

  39. “Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri faced [**more than 100 allegations of inappropriate behaviour**](https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2025-01-17/doctor-admits-removing-two-patients-ovaries-without-consent) with 24 instances proven but the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled that he has “shown good insight into his failures … and put in place procedures and actions to address his failings to ensure they do not happen again”

    24 instances? as a Doctor? No sorry a 25% fail rate is waaaaaay to high.

  40. It’s not that he removed ovaries without consent, it’s that he did it with “no clinical indication”.

    Sometimes doctors have to make difficult decisions during surgery on what’s best for the patient. It’s not like you can just wake them up half way through to ask their opinion. In this case though, (according to the available information) there was no reason for this. Would he be allowed to practice if he amputated someone’s hand for no reason?

    Even if the removal of ovaries was justified though, he still shouldn’t be allowed to be a doctor based on everything else. Hell, 24 proven cases of “inappropriate behavior”, surely that’s enough to put him in jail? Why is it even being called “inappropriate behavior” when it involved sexual assault? That’s a bit more than just “inappropriate”.

  41. …Then there is the thread about a man who spent half his life in prison for stealing a mobile phone, compared to this guy who stole a woman’s ovaries and assaulted others – yet is apparently fit to practise.

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