Defamation trial hears that a multidisciplinary team,including a pain specialist and an anesthetist,was responsible for prescribing drugs.
Charlotte Grieve told the Federal Court that her articles about surgeon Munjed Al Muderis were fair and based on patients’ experiences.
After a doctor performed remedial surgery on a former patient of Dr Munjed Al Muderis,he mysteriously found himself the subject of an anonymous complaint.
Sharon Jones-Baldwin should have been having shoulder surgery on Thursday,but she thought it was more important to give evidence against the orthopaedic surgeon.
Rachael Ulrich told a court she had “reasons” not to trust the surgeon after her operation,but maintained contact in case anything went wrong with her implant.
A former paratrooper said he battled severe infections after novel surgery to provide him with prosthetic limbs. But he also had refused,at times,to take antibiotics.
A woman who underwent an operation with orthopaedic surgeon Munjed Al Muderis claims she thought the procedure would give her a better life.
The Federal Court found Munjed Al Muderis was trying to circumvent court process and bring the administration of justice into disrepute by issuing a series of subpoenas.
Justice Robert Bromwich ruled that the public interest in journalist Charlotte Grieve maintaining the confidentiality of her sources exceeded the public interest in her being forced to disclose their identities.
Munjed Al Muderis,who is suing for defamation,is asking the Federal Court to determine whether the identities of a journalist’s sources should remain confidential.
A former patient of Dr Munjed Al Muderis has told the Federal Court he did not tell her that a drill bit had been left in her leg during surgery in 2011.