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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

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

Ian Paterson.
An inquest into the deaths of 62 of Paterson’s former patients commenced on Tuesday. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

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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