A surgeon who performed hundreds of potentially dodgy colonoscopies in the NSW-Victorian border region of Albury-Wodonga has been temporarily banned from practising medicine.
Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt will remain registered in Australia, but cannot perform any medical procedures or treat patients according to conditions imposed on Friday.
Close to 2000 patients who received colonoscopies performed or supervised by Dr Schmidt were told this week they may need to have their procedures repeated to ensure they don't have cancer.
