Chirurg Neil Hopper gibt Betrug gegen Amputation von eigenen Beinen zu – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvpx20le2o
Von CasualSmurf
Chirurg Neil Hopper gibt Betrug gegen Amputation von eigenen Beinen zu – BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yvpx20le2o
Von CasualSmurf
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Ah *lovely*! A comforting, classic amputation fraud fetish news story to round off my week.
> Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.
I guess the real question here is how many cases where he recommended amputation really required amputation, and how many people are missing body parts today as a result of his „sexual interest in amputation“.
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He clearly had body dismorphia, which is a fortunately rare condition in which certain parts of your body feel so wrong and alien that you seek amputation. I don’t know where the idea that it’s anything to do with sex comes from, except it’s our culture’s default explanation for anything weird.
When they said „go out on a limb,“ he took it a bit too literally.
One massive downside of a national health service is that if this bloke has amputated a load of limbs unnecessarily to satisfy his own urges then we, the tax payer will be on the hook for the compensation to the victims. It could be a staggering amount of money, tens of millions.
It seems like he had to admit the fraud, his defence really didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Well, so much for „Do unto others as…“ being a good rule.
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I like how the BBC link also has the original story when it was still believed to be sepsis
> An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has admitted two counts of insurance fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography.
> Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.
This is a head trip to read. Just when you think you’ve seen how weird and evil humans can be, you stumble across something much worse.
This is a fetish, isn’t it
Then I read the article
Realising you no longer have legs has to be the worst kind of post nut clarity.
Dr. Hopper had both his legs amputated. Missed opportunity there.
A tangentially related philosophical question,
So let’s assume for the sake of argument that, His legs were perfectly fine When he got them amputated,
And since now he doesn’t have them,
can he still claim disability benefits?
He is disabled but due to his own decisions,
Now putting that on its head,
let’s say everyone has a surgery to Give themselves super legs, but you don’t do the procedure and so in comparison to everyone else in society You are disabled?
Should you get disability Benefits?
With all the evidence against him, he didn’t have a leg to stand on
it seems the main problem here, and the jail time was £450k insurance fraud for a injury he faked! From current evidence – and I’m sure they’d say if there was a doubt, he didn’t persuade people to have amputations that didn’t need them – but he „liked“ the amputations. And the reason he was caught was because of connection to the far worse body modification sicko.
So insurance fraud. Yeah fine get him on that.
Extreme pornography? Like I don’t really care presumably alot of these people have BIDD and want their limbs removed assuming it’s consentual I don’t care. He used the method that alot of those with BIDD use to get their limbs hacked off (dry ice then forcing the surgeons hand)
Like alot of commenters It’s a concern if he misdiagnosed any of his patients. I wouldn’t disagree with an inquiry.
But again like 2 years? For like having a really weird kink and watching videos of amputees. Like not your kink don’t watch it we need to actually separate our own disgust from actual measurable harm this is why our system is unjust.
More important shit to prosecute.
Missed a trick there didn’t he. Hopper? Should have left one on!
There must have been something seriously wrong with him. Spent over 15 years of medical school, training, education… to become a vascular surgeon all to end up like this… bear in mind a vascular surgeon in the US is one of the better paid medical specialties, comp ranges from $450k to $550k per year.
Also, I want to know how did he thought he would get away? An amputation surgeon suddenly needs his legs to be amputated and claims money on the insurance. It’s like a firefighter claiming his house accidentally went up on fire. It’s going to be very suspicious.
>Neil Hopper
Is this a case of nominative determinism?
I’ve always wondered why doctors choose to become proctologists (ass doctors) out of all the specialties.
I now have a suspicion some of them might enjoy their work a bit too much 😂
Obviously a custodial sentence was needed as a deterrent to others considering the same crime…
Do you think he lays there looking at his stumps while he furiously jerks off?
Another weird aspect of this case is that prior to the fraud and the weird porn charges, the BBC were giving him loads of coverage:
BBC article from the before times:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64861273
BBC article about him getting shortlisted to be an astronaut:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-64823339
BBC Wales did a whole documentary on him:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0f2ml9h/drych-camau-tuar-ser
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Oh, and in one of the articles it references a „Eunuch Maker“ website he visited. This guy:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/09/how-eunuch-maker-livestreamed-extreme-body-modifications-marius-gustavson
Utter madness that this kind of depraved weirdo can be a consultant surgeon in the NHS.
Please tell me the surgeon isn’t the one deciding what gets cut off. Are there any doctors or nurses reading?
Why isn’t this considered affirming care, if he had body dysmorphia?
This is the weirdest episode of Doc Martin I’ve seen so far.
It’s a good job he doesn’t have two incredibly ironic names…
After admitting his crimes it’s safe to say he has no legs to stand on.
Why this needs Breaking News. Why everyone needs to know that? Typical rags news. Sick is the BBC.