Breast surgeon accused of wounding his patients with unnecessary ops joked 'I have to pay for my holidays somehow'
Ian Paterson alleged to have carried out a series of procedures for "obscure motives" which may have included a desire to earn extra money BY ALEXANDER BRITTON A surgeon accused of wounding his patients with unnecessary operations joked "I have to pay for my holidays somehow" during a private consultation, a court heard. Ian Paterson, who is alleged to have carried out a series of procedures for "obscure motives" which may have included a desire to earn extra money, is said to have told patient Patricia Welch and her husband that appointments were "a good earner". ent under the knife of Ian Paterson in 2001, three years after she found a lump in her left breast. Nottingham Crown Court heard Paterson said she was a "ticking bomb" and suggested she undergo a mastectomy - something she delayed telling her children about so as not to spoil her daughter's 18th birthday. At the time of the operation in 2001, Mrs Wel