LizT Reeves shouldn't be in court because there are 500 to 700 victims. He should have been stopped before he harmed a dozen women. He did not act on his own, there must have been anthaetists, nurses in the operating theatre or delivery suite watching his actions. They should have spoken up. The Department of Health and Medibank provide oversight into how the federal government spends the tax dollar on health care. Each procedure that is paid for has a different procedure number. Clearly they were asleep also. I mean how many excisions of external genitalia of adult females occur in Australia each year? A dozen?

JamesH found it all a bit too much and perhaps exaggerated.How would James feel if he had gone in for a routine operation and female Doctor removed the glans or top of his penis for fun?

Perhaps James counts removal of female genitals of being a lower order of magnitude,after all,their prime function is to have babies.Perhaps it is Sharia James Mohommad in disguise.

Firstly the author of this is demented! At least I hope so as she should be prosecuted for trying to influence the upcommingcase and dementia could be her only defence.
Doctors stick together, surgeons stick together. They will not dob each other in. Health Burecrats are totally useless as they are so so lazy!
What we need is to take the granting of medical licences and also the granting of legal qualifications from the Doctors and Lawyers. Just because they have shown their intelligence in specific areas does not mean any more than that!
Put them under a court and exclude Doctors and Lawyers from it and then when they behave "Inapropriately" they should be treated like anyone else would be for lying, cheating, stealing and visiting violence on others.

See this all has to do with the set up for complaint handling.

Even if a patient did complain what would happen is that the complaint would be sent to the hospital and given to the deviant. The deviant would then write a submission/reply that is full of lies and say that the procedure was justified and done professionally. I mean other nurses and doctors would say something if it wasn't done right - right!. Then this submission/reply would be sent back and then accepted and forwarded on as the truth and the matter would be closed - for good. Never to be re-opened again.

The complaint handling person would then send a letter to the complainant saying what they were advised and saying that they hope this satisfies the enquiry. Any further complaints about the issue are ignored or just sent a copy of what has already been prepared, said and done and you can go on a bureaucratic merry go round if you try to get justice and procedural fairness or even some rights.

That is how the system works. Because nothing is investigated or substantiated complaints are not added up so essentially they can do harm to a many people as they like until somebody internally speaks up.

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Arjay,

extreme caution needs to be applied to what the media reports. A few years ago I had inside knowledge about a story that was published in the media.

What was reported by the media, was actually very different to what the actual facts were. Apart from the names of people involved, the details and story that were published in the media was totally different to the details I knew to be fact.

I am not defending the behaviour of this doctor, if the allegations are true! and there is no doubt in my mind that there are doctors who are practicing that should not be allowed too.

This author if she wanted to make her points and to support her arguement, needed to bring out the case histories of the women involved.

She failed to do this, instead she deliberately tries to inflame the emotiveness by comparing this doctor to Jack the ripper (who I understand really did mutilate the bodies of his victims) and the bali bombers.

It has been assumed that Jack the ripper was either a doctor or a royal, who was protected. Now this may or may not be true. But without factual evidence this is pure speculation.

Talking about genital mutilation, when Loreen Bobbit cut her partners penis off, many of my female colleagues would make fun and jokes about this.

I do not think that genital mutilation of a male or female is something that one should make jokes about.

I am not even sure we should be discussing this, as the case has yet to be tried and I would hate to think that some of my actions could lead to a delay in proceedings. However, I expect that Graham Young has vetted the article and found it to be OK.

I agree with James H and LizT in that the author is over the top and paranoid. She states that the accused has contributed to the deaths of 500 women. Now I find that a bit hard to accept the accuracy of that. I read elsewhere that there have now been 500- 700 complaints about his procedural conduct, but many of these could be for other matters than genitial mutilation. If a court had any evidence that someone contributed to the deaths of 500, I cannot see the accused making bail.

Having read the other article by this author, it seems to me that she has a chip on her shoulder that men get a better deal in the media than women. I dont believe that.

I am content to leave further comment until after the case is heard.