A woman committed suicide following an operation to mend a bowel disorder that resulted in the removal of her ovaries without her consent, an inquest has heard.
British surgeon Dr Anthony Dixon, who “built up an international reputation for using mesh to fix bowel problems”, performed the surgery on Lucinda Methuen-Campbell at the Spire private hospital, in Bristol, The Daily Telegraph reports. During the op, in September 2016, he inserted a vaginal mesh implant in the 58-year-old mother-of-one, “but it left her in agony”, says the newspaper.
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