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  • Surgeon suspended for 'taking bowl of soup'

    03/22/2004 10:24:46 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 28 replies · 862+ views
    Evening Standard ^ | 22 March 2004 | Hugh Dougherty
    A brain surgeon has been suspended from his hospital in a dispute over whether he tried to "steal" an extra helping of soup. Terence Hope was sent home after it was claimed he took the soup from his hospital's staff canteen without paying. The consultant neurosurgeon, who is one of Britain's most respected specialists in his field, claimed he was getting extra croutons. Colleagues at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham were said to be furious at the move by management, which they said would hurt patients. Mr Hope, 57, was ordered to keep quiet about his suspension by hospital bosses,...