Surgeon banned from practising medicine after fears of ‘incomplete’ colonoscopies

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Surgeon banned from practising medicine after fears of ‘incomplete’ colonoscopies
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An Albury-Wodonga surgeon has been ordered not to practise medicine more than three years after she operated on the wrong end of a man’s colon.

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On Friday morning, less than a day after Safer Care Victoria announced the recall of thousands of patients, Schmidt’s Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency registration was updated to say Schmidt could no longer practise medicine. It is expected that many of Schmidt’s patients will need to undergo a repeat colonoscopy as a precautionary measure. A colonoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny camera to look in the bowel, for patients who have bowel problems or other symptoms, or have done a bowel screening test that has returned a positive result.

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