Sadomasochistic surgeon barred from seeing female patients wins High Court ruling

A consultant transplant surgeon who admitted to engaging in sadomasochism in his private life has won a High Court ruling lifting interim conditions on his practice.These conditions included a bar on carrying out face-to-face consultations with female patients except in life threatening emergencies. 1Judge Karen Walden-Smith, sitting as a High Court judge, also made an anonymity order protecting the identities of the nephrologist and transplant surgeon—referred to in the judgment as RMD—his former wife, another former partner, and his two teenage children.RMD was challenging conditions placed on his practice by an interim orders tribunal (IOT) pending investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) into his fitness to practise.These orders typically require doctors under investigation to notify organisations where they work about the interim order and provide them with a copy of the conditions.Conditions on RMD were imposed in 2025 after his former wife, B, and a later former partner, A,…