Forcing authorities to take action

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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.