David Sellu

UK Healthcare is in Crisis:

Reform must also address poor culture

"It will make uncomfortable reading but everyone who cares about our healthcare - workers, users and planners - cannot afford to ignore what this book reveals"

David Sellu was a surgeon with a distinguished record extending over forty years.

In 2010, a patient died under his care in a private hospital. There followed a sequence of extraordinary events that led to David being prosecuted and convicted for the patient's death and sent to prison. His licence to practise medicine was suspended, his career cut short. Events that took place later showed that this was an unfair trial with tinges of racism, and he won an appeal against his conviction and is now a free man. But the damage had already been done.

This book tells his extraordinary story for the first time, in his own words.

Did He Save Lives? A Surgeon's Story

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"A miscarriage of justice for a dedicated surgeon diligently doing a difficult job"
Shazia Kalsoom - Good Reads

Reading David Sellu's story, should send shivers down any practicing medics spine. There but for the grace of god go many in both NHS and private practice.
Here is a dedicated, caring surgeon highly commended by colleagues many of whom pay him the ultimate complement by entrusting their lives to his surgical abilities. Caught as a victim of circumstance trying to save a life and suffering as consequence of a hospital looking for a scapegoat and withholding vital information leading to his referral to a police investigation and subsequent criminal trial at The Old Bailey.

"Did he save lives?"
Roger Kirby - Trends in Men's Health

This fascinating, if sometimes harrowing, highly personal account should be required reading for all those who have an interest in patient safety. It tracks the journey of David Sellu from an impoverished childhood in Sierra Leone, to a successful and unblemished career as a colorectal surgeon in London, that was interrupted by his conviction and prison sentence for gross negligence manslaughter.

"There are no words"
JM2606 - Amazon review

Powerfully written with such dignity, humility and searingly painful honesty. A remarkable book documenting first hand a truly disgraceful miscarriage of justice. David Sellu, as a fellow medical professional, I stand with you, your family and all those who have supported you.