Disgraced specialist William Mooney back on the social scene

He lay low for two years after he had his registration cancelled, however disgraced specialist William Mooney is not only legally practising again but has made his first appearance back on the social scene.

He lay low after he had his registration cancelled for a year however disgraced surgeon William Mooney is not only practising again but has made his first appearance back on the Sydney social scene.

Mooney worked as an ear, nose and throat surgeon until April 2022, when his medical registration was cancelled after two patients died.

Six months later he was also caught by police buying cocaine on a Bondi street.

He pleased guilty to one count of possessing a prohibited drug at the time and escaped a conviction.

However Mooney is back. But we’re not sure he wants to make it known.

Mooney declined The Telegraph’s request for a photo however our spies snapped the celebrity surgeon at the much hyped Hunting Hue event in Sydney.

Mooney was spotted passionately kissing his girlfriend Gemma Wright on the dance floor, proving she has stuck by her boyfriend despite his controversial past.

In February 2018, after operating on a 24-year-old patient to fix a snoring issue, Mooney spotted some bleeding but thought he had repaired the artery.

However two days later, the man underwent an emergency operation because of a recurrent haemorrhage, suffered a heart attack, and died.

Then in November 2017, while attempting to unblock the sinuses of a 41-year-old man, Mooney became disorientated and penetrated the bone below the patient’s brain.

This disrupted an artery and caused bleeding into the frontal lobe before that patient also died.

In April 2022, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal found Mooney conducted the operations in an inappropriately short amount of time, including acting with “reckless haste” in the case of the 41-year-old man.

He also previously had a relationship with a vulnerable 27-year-old patient diagnosed with anorexia-bulimia.

From October 2013, he sent her thousands of messages, went out for dinner with her on one occasion, and prescribed her weight-loss medication despite knowing she had an eating disorder.

There are no findings he had sex with the patient.

Mooney told the tribunal in 2021 he and the woman engaged in “mutual flirtation”.

NCAT disqualified him as a medical practitioner for one year.

Then six months after he was stripped of his registration, police arrested Mooney after spotting him getting into a car in Bondi Beach only to get out again a short distance down the road.