Posted on 06/21/2009 2:37:48 PM PDT by MindBender26
For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.
Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate. It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear. He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the prostate, investigators said.
The revision may have made Dr. Kao look better, but it did nothing for the patient, who had to undergo a second implant. It failed, too, resulting in an unintended dose to the rectum. Regulators knew nothing of this second mistake because no one reported it.
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This doctor... and the system... were letts vets die.
This is what we can expect under Obamacare.
This is an outrage.
Thanks for posting.
I qualify for VA care. After being on the inside of several VA hospitals and comparing them to private health-care, I won't set foot again in a VA hospital. It can be downright scary. Many of the doctors are past their prime or simply lethargic. This was the state well before Obama arrived on the scene. I suppose he could make it worse and endemic throughout the whole of health-care.
Thank you for posting. This and other stuff has been going fora long time and no one in Gov. seems to care.
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