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North surgeon left questioning his skill after scandal

Jul 31 2011 by Alastair Craig, Sunday Sun

AN eminent North surgeon has revealed how he questioned his career over an international hip replacement scandal.

Dr Tony Nargol, based at North Tees Hospital in Stockton, has become a leading expert in a mass legal case against one of the world’s top medical firms.

Controversial hip replacement joints manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics have sparked hundreds of legal challenges after patients were left in agony.

Dr Nargol, who lives in Ponteland, is now acting as a consultant to lawyers representing people across Europe and America who have launched actions against the medical giant.

The false hip product known as the DePuy ASR system is now the subject of a worldwide recall.

Last month, the Sunday Sun revealed how patients in the North East had joined hundreds across Europe in launching a legal campaign for damages.

Retired ex-pat Diana Hedley, 70, from Fenham, Newcastle, who now lives in Spain, claims that a wearing action of metal on metal in her new hip caused particles of cobalt and chromium to enter her bloodstream, risking damage to internal organs.

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