According to a contentious doctor who has been accused of dropping his scrubs mid-surgery and making other weird claims, the reason his trousers were about his ankles was because he “had no hips.”
Dr. Daryl Stephens, a urologist, has made an effort to defend his image after being accused of “mutilating” a patient’s penis and blowing his nose on a curtain mid-operation. He was suspended by Mackay Hospital and Health Service last month.
The Queensland doctor said that his supervisor received many images of him with his scrub trousers around his ankles shot by colleagues in an effort to discredit him.
One of the pictures, he said, was “taken from the internet” and showed a guy with hairy legs; the doctor asserted that he had not a “single hair” on his legs.
The surgeon told the Sunday Mail, “This was pretty plainly someone who was trying to get me in trouble.”
You may have noticed that I don’t have hips. Everyone has moments when their pants come down while they are working.
The color version is available (of the fake photo). I exclusively wear black, it has blue socks, and I’m a bachelor. At five in the morning, I get up.
“It has hairy legs, but my legs are completely hairless.”
The surgeon’s exclusion from Mackay Base Hospital and Mackay Mater Private Hospital was only last week extended by a further month.
Dr. Stephens, who is still being paid in full, expressed concern for patients who needed specialized treatment after his suspension due to patient safety issues.
In the midst of operation, the surgeon is accused of blowing his nose on a patient’s blanket and tossing a hospital robe among body fluids.
The urologist refuted allegations that he had hygiene issues and blew his nose mid-surgery, although he did confess that sometimes he can be “theatrical” and fly off the handle. He explained this by saying he doesn’t like to blow his nose in public.
Regarding the claim that he exhaled on a patient’s drape, he said, “I think I was bending over the patient’s leg and I don’t know what the person observed.”
A tribunal determined in 2018 that Dr. Stephens, who was practicing in Western Australia at the time, had shown the most severe degree of “incompetence” while providing care for a cancer patient.
After Dr. Stephens neglected to evaluate the patient’s pathology findings for three months, the Medical Board of Australia came to the conclusion that he had engaged in professional misconduct.
The urologist had completed a year of surveillance, therefore medical authorities determined “the protection of the public” was not necessary.
He received a $30,000 punishment for professional misconduct and a $2,000 fine for failing to disclose that in 2014, he had lost his license to practice medicine at Peel Health Campus.
Due to a lack of medical professionals in Queensland, Dr. Stephens continued to operate on patients. He worked out in Mackay, a town located roughly 970 kilometers north of Brisbane.
The surgery on a Queensland father-of-two who had a treatment to correct a bed in his penis was allegedly botched by the surgeon in 2019.
Days following the procedure, the guy informed the Sunday Mail that he had difficulties.
The patient remarked, “It’s been a nightmare.”
“I have sexual dysfunction as a result of that, and my penis had to be cut down.” The goal of the treatment was to correct a calcified bend in the penis.
I eventually got the foreskin adhered to the penis’ tip. I underwent a second operation to attempt to solve the issue, but there were still issues, so I decided to pay for the necessary corrective surgery privately.
Dr. Stephens said he had no knowledge of the father-of-two receiving compensation from Mackay Base Hospital.
He said he had not yet spoken with the hospital’s personnel about his suspension since they “had a lot” on their minds. He is the sole public expert in urology there.
The urologist believes that he is “unemployable” in light of recent public attention given to allegations of misbehavior brought out by several of his former patients.
He remarked, “Any employer that googles me will walk away.”
A seasoned urologist with a passion for prostate cancer, Dr. Stephens is now in his 70s and is classified as such.
In 2001, when he was charged with deliberate murder in a euthanasia case, his name made news for being the first surgeon in Australia to face such a charge.
He was accused of administering medications that were not part of Freeda Hayes’ treatment plan in a Perth hospice, where she was a terminally sick cancer patient.
When the Director of Public Prosecutions brought the matter before the Supreme Court, the jury needed barely ten minutes to reach its verdict that Dr. Stephen was not guilty.