Exposing Emil Gayed, the obstetrician who mutilated scores of NSW women | Ten years of Guardian Australia

Melissa Davey and Carly Earl look back at long days uncovering the shocking extent of the doctor’s botched surgeries – ‘It was all snowballing’

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On 4 June 2018 Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey received a phone message from a woman making a shocking claim.

An obstetrician working for a New South Wales hospital had paid a patient to have an abortion at almost 20 weeks, Davey was told when she called the woman back. He thought he had harmed the patient’s unborn baby during a medical procedure, the woman said, and wrote her a cheque to cover the termination.

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