Surgeon banned for six months after patient death, botched colonoscopies
Surgeon Dr. Liu-Ming Schmidt has been suspended for six months following findings of professional misconduct related to botched colonoscopies and a patient death. An investigation led to the recall of nearly 2,000 patients for repeat procedures.
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This case underscores critical failures in medical oversight and the severe consequences of substandard surgical practices.
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Share A A A A surgeon has been found guilty of professional misconduct over her treatment of 13 patients, including a man who died after she operated on the wrong end of his colon and a woman whose bowel cancer tumour she missed during a rushed colonoscopy.
Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt had her medical registration suspended for six months by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which found that the surgeon had spent as little as five minutes performing colonoscopies on patients at Albury Wodonga Health on the NSW and Victorian border.
Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt had her medical registration suspended for six months. Schmidt was the subject of a 2023 investigation that found a series of incomplete colonoscopies performed or supervised by the surgeon between 2018 and 2022.
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