Il chirurgo Neil Hopper ammette una frode per l’amputazione delle proprie gambe – BBC News

> Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.

I guess the real question here is how many cases where he recommended amputation really required amputation, and how many people are missing body parts today as a result of his “sexual interest in amputation”.

He clearly had body dismorphia, which is a fortunately rare condition in which certain parts of your body feel so wrong and alien that you seek amputation. I don’t know where the idea that it’s anything to do with sex comes from, except it’s our culture’s default explanation for anything weird.

One massive downside of a national health service is that if this bloke has amputated a load of limbs unnecessarily to satisfy his own urges then we, the tax payer will be on the hook for the compensation to the victims. It could be a staggering amount of money, tens of millions.

Well, so much for “Do until others as…” being a good rule.

> An NHS vascular surgeon who had his own legs removed has admitted two counts of insurance fraud and three of possessing extreme pornography.

> Neil Hopper, 49, of Truro, Cornwall, carried out hundreds of amputation operations before having his own legs removed in 2019.

This is a head trip to read. Just when you think you’ve seen how weird and evil humans can be, you stumble across something much worse.

Realising you no longer have legs has to be the worst kind of post nut clarity.

A tangentially related philosophical question,
So let’s assume for the sake of argument that, His legs were perfectly fine When he got them amputated (since that’s not established Legally),

And since now he doesn’t have them,

can he still claim disability benefits?

He is disabled but due to his own decisions,

Now putting that on its head,

let’s say everyone has a surgery to Give themselves super legs, but you don’t do the procedure and so in comparison to everyone else in society You are disabled?

Should you get disability Benefits?

it seems the main problem here, and the jail time was £450k insurance fraud for a injury he faked! From current evidence – and I’m sure they’d say if there was a doubt, he didn’t persuade people to have amputations that didn’t need them – but he “liked” the amputations. And the reason he was caught was because of connection to the far worse body modification sicko.

Missed a trick there didn’t he. Hopper? Should have left one on!