from the NZ Herald:

'Butcher' mutilated women patients
5:00AM Wednesday February 27, 2008
By Greg Ansley

CANBERRA - Allegations of horrific mutilation of female patients by a
doctor with a history of mental illness have emerged from the town of
Bega on the New South Wales south coast.

In a valley famed for its cheese and herds of Friesian and Jersey cows,
police and medical authorities are now - belatedly - investigating
Graeme Reeves, dubbed the Butcher of Bega by the Australian media.

For years, patients who had allegedly suffered sexual abuse and
deliberate mutilation of their genitals during operations performed by
Reeves had kept silent from fear or shame.

But the dam broke when one of his former patients, Carolyn Dewaegeneire,
told her story to Channel Nine's Sunday programme, describing in
terrifying detail the surgery she underwent in 2002 at Pambula Hospital,
one of the two in which Reeves worked.

As she was slipping under a general anaesthetic for an operation to
remove a lesion from her labia, she said Reeves whispered in her ear.

"As he put the mask over my face, to send me into unconsciousness, he
leaned right over me - and I'll never forget this to my dying day - and
said `I'm going to take your clitoris too'."

All her external genitalia were removed in the operation.

Now as many as 500 former patients have sent similar accounts to the
Medical Error Group, a pressure group established a decade ago by
activist Lorraine Long, whose mother died after three doctors
misdiagnosed an asthma attack...


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10494828




there, Ricky. didn't i tell you doctors CAN'T BE TRUSTED?

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