A colleague of Ian Paterson has told an inquest he could have reported the disgraced breast surgeon’s “unusual” operating technique, but said he “didn’t feel in a position to take things further”.
Dr Adrian Parnell, a radiologist who worked at the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham and also privately at the Spire Little Aston Hospital until he retired in 2014, said he was “surprised” when, in around 2005, he was asked to carry out repeat mammograms for some of Paterson’s patients who had previously undergone a complete mastectomy to see if cancer had returned.
