The jailed breast surgeon Ian Paterson has said he did not tell women if he was going to perform an unauthorised cleavage-sparing mastectomy on them because “it was frightening and they didn’t need to or want to know”.
Giving evidence for the first time at an inquest into the deaths of 62 of his former patients, Paterson said he considered a cleavage-sparing mastectomy to be an “adaptation of a standard operation” that did not require separate consent.
