Women voice anger about surgery She has been given perhaps two years to live. "It was a shock," she said. Another woman, Gail Boichat, a 57-year-old mother of three, who had an unnecessary mastectomy in 1995, said Mr Paterson should be made to face the anger of his patients. "He should be put in a room with the women he has operated on, with all 1,000 of them, that's how we feel," she told the Daily Mail. A friend said: "Hack away bits of his body bit by bit like he did." Helen Gardiner, 41, mother of four, from Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, Reportedly learned last month that she was needlessly operated on five times. She was recommended for a mastectomy by Mr Paterson but said she refused because she considered it "drastic" as the supposed lumps she had were not cancerous. She said: "I don't think a lot of people have ever experienced this. I put my trust in him. I feel extremely angry. He endangered my life. I feel like I've been assaulted. In some cases Ian Paterson did not remove enough tissue during mastectomies, and in others he extracted lumps without a prior biopsy, lawyers claim. It has emerged he operated on hundreds of women even after serious concerns were raised about his NHS work.