Many of those patients will now have to have a repeat procedures. 9News
The ban has been declared on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency website the day after Safer Care Victoria announced about 2000 patients may have received inaccurate diagnoses from colonoscopies supervised or performed by the doctor.About 2000 patients had the procedure either performed or supervised by Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt.
Her Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency registration was updated this morning to say she was "not to practise medicine". "I think she should have her licence revoked and the book thrown at her 'cause it's just not good enough," the mum said.About 2000 colonoscopies performed or supervised by one surgeon in the Albury-Wodonga region have been found to be incomplete.
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