A Sydney surgeon has told the Federal Court that Dr Munjed Al Muderis left a drill bit in a patient’s leg when he performed surgery in 2011.
A Sydney surgeon has told the Federal Court that Dr Munjed Al Muderis has a “poor reputation” among his colleagues and left a drill bit in a patient’s leg, in an explosive day of evidence during the prominent surgeon’s defamation case against Nine newspapers andOrthopaedic surgeon Dr Dimitri Papadimitriou gave evidence in Sydney on Thursday that he performed surgery on one of Al Muderis’ former patients, Leah Mooney, in September 2011, after Al Muderis had performed two surgeries on Mooney...
Osseointegration involves inserting titanium pins into the residual bone of an amputee to enable prosthetic limbs to be connected. Mooney was not an osseointegration patient. He said he observed that the “fracture had been fixed in a poor alignment” during the first surgery, with the leg “going outwards”.
The court heard that Papadimitriou observed a drill bit had been left in Mooney’s knee during the initial surgery. He said this wasn’t always a problem, but “if you do have an infection it becomes one of the things that now need to be removed”. He said that it also “brings in a process where essentially there’s an incident form put in in the hospital”.
“I told her that it was OK that it was in there; that it hadn’t harmed her being in there but … our treatment was going to need to remove it.”
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