{"id":1203,"date":"2018-02-08T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:06:28","slug":"surgeon-jailed-for-endangering-patients-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/surgeon-jailed-for-endangering-patients-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Jailed for Endangering Patients\u2019 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the BBC, a surgeon has been jailed for lying about the extent of his experience in bowel operations in order to get a lucrative consultancy position.<\/p>\n<p>After approximately one year in post, Sudip Sarker was suspended from his position at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch. Following investigations, his patients were found to have a higher mortality rate after their operations than his colleagues\u2019 patients and it transpired that the surgeon had greatly exaggerated his capacity to carry out keyhole bowel procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The judge described Mr Sarker\u2019s behaviour as \u201creckless and dangerous.\u201d He further described his actions as having \u201cconsequences that were disastrous\u2026putting people\u2019s lives at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There will be further investigations into the deaths of some of Mr Sarker\u2019s patients. <\/p>\n<p>Medical Negligence<\/p>\n<p>If you are suffering the effects of a significant failing in medical care, you may be entitled to make a claim for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Please call us on <a href=\"tel:0800 234 3300\">0800 234 3300<\/a> (or from a mobile <a href=\"tel:01275334030\"><strong>01275 334030<\/strong><\/a>) or complete our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><strong>Online Enquiry Form<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/free-claim-enquiry-mn.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/images\/FreeClaims-top.gif\" alt=\"Free enquiry\" width=\"199\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the BBC, a surgeon has been jailed for lying about the extent of his experience in bowel operations in order to get a lucrative consultancy position. After approximately one year in post, Sudip Sarker was suspended from his position at Alexandra Hospital in Redditch. Following investigations, his patients were found to have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1256,1255],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-negligence","tag-bowel-operations","tag-fraudulent-surgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}