Forcing authorities to take action
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (377624)
Rockingham, Australia
February 23, 2026 6:22pm CST
Australia has its ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation); Britain has its BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and I’m not sure what other countries have. These stations are meant to be above the influence by political parties, wealthy patrons or whatever. I would like to think that is the case. Our ABC program, Four Corners, investigates subjects that government and others would rather be left alone.
One of these stories tells of a gynaecologist who is up for investigation due to subjecting female patients to operation after operation for endometriosis when there was little or no evidence of such a condition. Tissues and organs were removed when there was little or no trace of the disease. His patients were left with infertility in some cases, in addition to chronic pain and ongoing health issues. One woman was operated on seven times.
However, despite multiple complaints by clinicians and patients over a number of years, nothing has been done about him until now. Days after learning that Four Corners was doing a program on this man, an internal investigation began. The surgeon under scrutiny has suddenly retired from practice. But don’t worry about him – he already has a $5 million spread and a penthouse.
This is indicative of how important a totally independent news program is. Would anything have been done about this charlatan had it not been for the Four Corner journalists.
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@toniganzon (76140)
• Philippines
24 Feb
All the privately owned stations here are independent and above the government so they are free to attack government issues. There was only one government owned station but was closed down I think last year or two years ago.
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@toniganzon (76140)
• Philippines
25 Feb
@JudyEv Right. We can watch BBC and ABC from here actually. But we prefer BBC more.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Feb
@toniganzon That's great that you have the choice. I wouldn't have guessed that.
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@FourWalls (85073)
• United States
24 Feb
That’s terrible. Hopefully the doctor with have five cents left after the lawyers get done with him. Or he can dream of his penthouse from behind prison walls.
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@FourWalls (85073)
• United States
25 Feb
@JudyEv — there’s a museum in Montgomery that I didn’t make it to this time around. It has a statue for the “Mothers of Gynecology,” a tribute to the slave women that the so-called “father of gynecology” J. Marion Sims performed grizzly experiments on.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Feb
Rotting in jail is almost too good for him. One woman has had both ovaries removed and her uterus - all separate operations - when there was nothing to justify such actions. Another is on high doses of pain-killers and will be for the rest of her life. It makes my blood boil.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb
@FourWalls Really?? That's just awful. I knew there was someone who did similar on Jewish women in the German camps but didn't know about this guy. 
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@DaddyEvil (171965)
• United States
24 Feb
Some doctors get away with stuff for years before enough evidence accumulates that anyone will look to see what is really going on.
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@Ineeddentures (28251)
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24 Feb
Probably not.
And that's really sad.
Why did nobody even look into the complaints.
Here in the UK they would have , after a few years
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb
@Ineeddentures Which is another reason why it's so good that someone alerted Four Corners.
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@ocard010101 (95)
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24 Feb
Stories like this really highlight how vital independent journalism from organizations like the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and programs such as Four Corners can be in holding powerful figures accountable.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Feb
That's exactly right. They are very good at making the public aware of what is going on.
@snowy22315 (206069)
• United States
24 Feb
Maybe eventually..sometimes it takes a long time to capture these people it seems even though a wide number of people know about them. I don't get it.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
25 Feb
I think half the trouble is no-one is game to be the first to speak up. These journalists had the time and resources I guess to go back through medical records and get the vital evidence needed.
@wolfgirl569 (132898)
• Marion, Ohio
24 Feb
Glad they are investigating now. But it should have been a long time ago
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@RasmaSandra (96395)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Feb
Always better when the word gets out,
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@Shiva49 (28127)
• Singapore
24 Feb
It is good to have investigative journalism that can be trusted.
This was a criminal act as the trust reposed on the doctor had been misplaced to the chagrin of the victims.
That this had happened in a developed country is even more shocking.
In worst cases, even kidneys are removed without permission and sold for a price.
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@aninditasen (18151)
• Raurkela, India
24 Feb
In India most news channels are now supporting the ruling government at the centre and rarely talk about them for fear of getting arrested.
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@JudyEv (377624)
• Rockingham, Australia
26 Feb
@aninditasen It is a great pity when journalists can no longer speak out and report honestly.
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@aninditasen (18151)
• Raurkela, India
25 Feb
@JudyEv This will not possibly happen in India. Yes, it did happen years back when journalists were honest and expressed the truth.
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@LindaOHio (219016)
• United States
24 Feb
His home and $$ should be taken away from him and paid out to his patients that he wronged.
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@Fleura (34515)
• United Kingdom
24 Feb
I used to have a fairly dim view of journalists, poking their noses into people's private lives, spying on well-known people with telephoto lenses when they were supposed to be enjoying a quiet holiday, that sort of thing. But there have been a number of cases where investigative journalists have done a really good job at shining the spotlight on dodgy and downright criminal practices. The Post Office scandal over here, for example; the trafficking of looted antiquities from Iraq to the 'Museum of the Bible' in Washington D.C.; as well as numerous healthcare scandals. Unfortunately the BBC itself has been embroiled in various scandals involving the behaviour of its presenters 
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