A tribunal has struck off an NHS locum surgeon who nearly killed a patient by connecting the wrong organs during emergency bowel surgery. Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman was erased from the medical register after the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found he had created a 'closed loop' that sent a young man's bowel contents back into his stomach during an operation at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester in August 2020.
The tribunal examined Dr Rahman's conduct after a routine emergency bowel operation spiralled into what experts later described as an error 'not compatible with life'. The patient, referred to only as Patient A, had been admitted with a tumour in his small bowel and a perforated, necrotic loop requiring urgent surgery.
