GMC Clears Gynaecologist Who Mistreated Woman With Stomach Pains
18/08/2006
We found you very professional as well as approachable, helpful and caring. We can now move on and look forward to a more stable and secure future. I am sure that this would not have happened without yourselves being involved.
Jayne, Evesham
Dr May Mammo was working as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop when a woman in his care died following a hysterectomy operation.
He denied misconduct. At a GMC fitness to practice hearing this week he was cleared of the charge.
The hearing had heard that Mammo should not have carried out the inappropriate treatment
and should have considered alternative treatments.
The woman had the surgery after suffering from stomach pains.
She died following surgery at Bassetlaw Hospital in 2001.
In actual fact the stomach pains had probably been caused by fibroids and HRT.
Mammo's failure to diagnose accurately the cause of the patient's stomach pains led to him inappropriately treating her by operating unnecessarily.
The misdiagnosis led to a decision to perform a hysterectomy which was the cause of her death.
It is thought that the operation posed a risk to the patient because she suffered from angina and the operation would have put her at risk of heart attack.
The patient died the day after the operation from a suspected heart attack.
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