preview

The Medical Board Of Australia And New Zealand

Decent Essays

24 October 2015

Dear Sirs,
I refer to the matter , and his plaint brought under Personal Injuries Proceedings Act 2002 against Central Queensland Health Service District for treatment received commencing June 2010 and subsequent.
I confirm that I am registered with the Medical Board of Australia as a Specialist General Surgeon, with my practice largely confined to Colorectal Surgery. My qualifications are Bachelor of Medicine, and Bachelor of Surgery with Honours (1979) from the University of New South Wales, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1987), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1987) and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. I am a member of, and past Director of, the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand.
I have received instructions in this matter, dated 17 October 2012, and accompanying documentation being: the Claimant 's PIPA Notice of Claim
Two reports from Professor David Morris dated 18 August, 2011 and 28 December 2011 respectively ppearances are consistent with an ileus, and not with a bowel obstruction.
The pain he developed in the right upper abdomen on 26 June 2010 may have been due to an hepatic subcapsular haematoma as the CT scan demonstrated fluid surrounding the liver and not elsewhere in the abdomen (appended images: page 2).
There were none of the expected clinical features of anastomotic leakage prior to 1 July 2010 when a second CT scan was a requested. When performed on 2 July

Get Access