article_snippet.sent: Professor Ninian Peckitt is accused of repeatedly punching a patient in the face to correct a fracture .
article_snippet.sent: A pioneering facial surgeon ‘repeatedly’ punched a patient in the head in an ‘extraordinary’ attempt to correct a fracture caused by an industrial accident, a medical tribunal has heard.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Ninian Peckitt, 63, claimed Professor Ninian Peckitt had simply ‘digitally manipulated’ the patient’s face as part of hospital treatment, but witnesses said that in reality Professor Ninian Peckitt had actually been hitting Professor Ninian Peckitt, a medical tribunal was told.
article_snippet.sent: The world-renowned surgeon, who has lectured on the use of titanium implants to treat disfigured patients and has been published in academic texts, faces being struck off the medical register after being accused of failing three of Professor Ninian Peckitt patients.
article_snippet.sent: A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester was told a man referred to as Patient A had suffered ‘extensive injuries’ to the right side of Professor Ninian Peckitt face in an industrial accident.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The case is not centred around the outcome, but the method of the surgery by way of the extraordinary allegation that Professor Ninian Peckitt repeatedly punched the patient in the face.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Ninian Peckitt added that Patient A had fallen out of bed which had further displaced Professor Ninian Peckitt facial fractures.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Peckitt, formerly of Doncaster, later described the procedure as one in which the patient’s face had been ‘digitally manipulated as best the patient’s face could be achieved’, A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester heard.
highlights_snippet.sent: Professor Ninian Peckitt allegedly punched man who had been in accident .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: later wrote patient's face was 'digitally manipulated' in February 2012 .
  