Rogue UK surgeon who turned patients into ‘guinea pigs’ linked to over 200 victims, reports reveals

For years, Sam Eljamel was a respected neurosurgeon in Scotland, the head of neurosurgery at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, the man patients trusted to remove brain tumours, treat chronic pain and perform some of the most delicate operations in medicine. What they did not know then, but would learn slowly and painfully over time, was that he had harmed dozens of them, and, according to more recent reports, potentially more than 200, carrying out unsafe and sometimes experimental procedures that left many with life-changing injuries. Today, more than a decade after he was suspended and later resigned, Scotland is finally trying to piece together what happened. A public inquiry, now entering its hearing stage, is examining how one surgeon was allowed to operate for so long, why warnings we