{"id":322487,"date":"2025-08-06T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322487\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:31:10","slug":"bristol-surgeon-struck-off-after-bowel-patients-left-in-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322487\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol surgeon struck off after bowel patients left in agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision follows an investigation by the BBC and a review by Southmead Hospital and Spire Hospital, which found more than 200 patients were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cw0y189yknzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">harmed after Dixon operated on them unnecessarily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Southmead Hospital&#8217;s investigation, in 2023, found non-surgical treatments should have been offered instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC first revealed allegations made against Dixon in 2017, when many women complained of severe pain following their operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He used a technique known as mesh rectopexy to treat bowel problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tribunal received testimonials that &#8220;spoke very highly&#8221; of Dixon, including from numerous former patients who said how he helped them, as well as being described as &#8220;extremely well thought of by his peers and a leading light&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the tribunal found he had &#8220;not taken any steps to remediate his serious misconduct&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision follows an investigation by the BBC and a review by Southmead Hospital and Spire Hospital, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981836176077522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}