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Jaya Narain
Daily Mail
August 8, 2013
A surgeon ‘lied and lied and lied’ to a woman with a brain tumour by claiming he had removed it, a tribunal heard yesterday.
Emmanuel Labram told the woman he had successfully removed the entire growth when he had removed only a tiny sample for a biopsy.
After lying to her he convinced her not to seek further treatment for two years after the operation by insisting she was absolutely fine.
By the time the woman decided to seek private treatment for her problem, the lesion on her brain was inoperable.
Yesterday a Medical Practitioners Tribunal hearing was told Mr Labram had repeatedly lied to the patient, identified as Patient A, after carrying out the operation at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in September 2008.
Craig Sephton, QC, for the General Medical Council, told the hearing: ‘It is difficult to understand why Mr Labram initially told the patient and her husband that he had completely removed the lesion when he must have known that no such thing had happened.
‘He then lied and lied and lied in order to cover up his initial failure.’
The misconduct hearing was told that after lying to Patient A he forged and falsified documents and also lied to medical colleagues.
Labram, 58, who qualified in Ghana in 1981, even sent letters to the patient’s GP telling him that no further treatment was necessary, it was said.
The hearing in Manchester was told that Patient A had fallen ill on holiday in November 2007, experiencing double vision, and booked an appointment with her optician.
She was then referred to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where an MRI scan revealed she had a tumour about one inch in diameter in her brain.
The woman, who saw Labram to discuss her options for treatment in June 2008, told the hearing: ‘My first questions were, “Is it accessible? Is it operable?” and, “Is there anything you can do about it?”
‘He said, “Oh yes. That’s the only way to find out”, so I was confident the surgery would go well and I would find out what was causing the double vision.’
She added: ‘I was under the impression that he was going to remove the tumour.’
After the neurosurgeon operated in September 2008 he told her that he had removed 100 per cent of the tumour, she said.
‘He said, “It’s all gone”. He said it was just calcium deposits. That’s how he described it,’ she told the hearing.
Mr Sephton said: ‘Mr Labram gave Patient A’s husband a vivid description of how he had removed the tumour. In fact he had not excised the lesion at all.’
