Medical tribunal strips NHS surgeon after fatal error

A tribunal has ordered a surgeon struck off the medical register for a catastrophic surgical error that nearly killed a patient and was described by an expert as "not known to man." Dr. Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon, was erased from the register following a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing concerning an emergency operation he performed at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Greater Manchester on August 25, 2020.

The patient, a young man referred to as Patient A, had been admitted with a tumor in his small bowel and a perforated, necrotic section requiring urgent surgery. During the procedure, Dr. Rahman connected the wrong part of the small intestine to the stomach, creating a closed loop. This meant bowel contents had nowhere to go except back into the stomach in a circular fashion, a condition experts said was "not compatible with life." Another segment of bowel was left unattached in the abdomen.

In the weeks following the surgery, the patient's condition deteriorated sharply. He experienced escalating pain, persistent vomiting, and had no bowel movements for three weeks. Nursing staff repeatedly raised concerns, with one noting that Dr. Rahman...