A "crippled" dad has slammed the decision to allow a drink-drive doctor to resume her career - after her selfish crime cost him his.
Wesley Hall was left needing a wheelchair after Dr Julia Morch-Siddall drank more than four cans of Stella and smashed her speeding Land Rover into him on the A692, near Gateshead.
Morch-Siddall avoided prison and she has now been told she will be allowed to return to work.
A tribunal ruled she would be suspended for just two months as she was deemed fit to practise.
"I was expecting her to be struck off, so I just find the decision unbelievable," said Wesley.
"This whole thing has rocked my faith in the system."
Wesley revealed Morch-Siddall's actions inflicted a huge strain on both the dad-of-three and his young family.
"I'm crippled, I'm in pain every day and I've got a permanent limp," claimed Wesley, who was in a wheelchair for several months after the January 2018 crash.
"I was made redundant six months after the crash and I am still waiting to find out if I need further operations.
"My partner has had to pick up the slack and we are having to get by on one income.
"And with my kids I had to basically drop out of their lives for six months.
"I had to learn to walk again and I'm not as active as I used to be."
A court heard Morch-Siddall was "self-medicating" with alcohol as she battled suicidal thoughts when the crash occured.
Driving on a 30mph road, Wesley was knocked out when her Freelander plowed head-on into his VW Up.
When he regained consciousness, he was in agony having suffered multiple fractures.
He previously told ChronicleLive he believed the crash could easily have been fatal.
He hobbled into Newcastle Crown Court last September to hear her barrister claim the then 50-year-old medic "couldn't be more apologetic".
But he's claimed she's never once tried to apologise in person.
Instead, Wesley said he has been forced to pick up the pieces.
And he received a fresh blow this week after the three-person Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service panel allowed the Newcastle-based doctor to keep practising.
The Manchester tribunal, which was partially held in private, focused on whether Morch-Siddall was fit to practise after admitting causing the devastating crash.
It ruled she was but the full report has yet to be made public.
However, Wesley insists he would never let her come anywhere near him.
The North Shields man wants others to know they can make the same choice.
"I've had to have a lot of operations and the anaesthetist always introduced themselves," he said.
"Although she's allowed to go back, the public should know who she is.
"They can say 'no', they can say they don't want her if they want."
Wesley remains adamant that Morch-Siddall shouldn't be allowed back to work - and should instead be behind bars.
Her 18-month jail term was suspended after the then 50-year-old admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to provide a specimen of breath.
Judge Robert Adams spared her immediate custody after receiving a string of glowing references.
Morch-Siddall, of East Heddon, Heddon-on-the-Wall, was also ordered to carry out unpaid work.
After she was sentenced, her victim claimed: “I feel if it had been any other member of the public and not a doctor, she would have been facing jail time right now.”
Wesley still feels the same and is angry at what he feels is a soft sentence from the panel - especially given the ongoing impact it has had on him.
"This has been life changing for me," he said.
"But she can get on with her life now after the trail of wreckage that she's left behind.
"To me, that just doesn't seem right."
