Posted on 05/21/2005 7:15:04 AM PDT by nuconvert
When he refuses to wash his hands in-between patients, it is not incomptetence, but arrogance. It sounds like this doctor committed murder a few times, before his license was pulled.
I wish doctors like this would be brought up on murder charges.
Thank you for reminding me of my legal and ethical obligations. I didnt say I didnt report any of them.
If you are reporting them and they are breaching the standard of care, then you should expect to see those doctors less frequently in the future.
One can only hope. :)
Although I would love to "play" and debate this with you, I cant, I must go be part of the problem of giving my patients the very best I can and "play" the advocate for them...Which by the way, is my job as a nurse.
Any thoughts?
It sounds like Patel has a serious psychiatric disorder--hard to know what it might be, but personality disorder would be my guess. He is not an idiot, so it would be difficult to assign his dreadful ways to anything else.
I wonder if he can work at the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast.
Why are Indian and Pakistani doctors practicing
in America and the West world in general? Those
countries are in dire need of doctors just to
treat the common compliants of people. They should
not be permitted to come here and practice.
I havent had to pay a price yet, but I'm sure I will at some point. Make no mistake about it, my patients safety comes first, even over my career. Thats how it should be.
Perhaps when we see her college thesis...
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This type of deterioration is either early dementia or (more likely) drugs.
Yes, Patel is the "Smith" of India. Consequently, there are many "Patels" and many Drs. Patel and at least one other Dr. Patel who has similar "(dis)credentials".
In Lafayette, LA., there is a Dr. Patel who has been malpracticing for years. Finally, they have stopped him from practicing. In one instance, he prescribed 14 precriptions to a friend's mother be taken every day, most of them 2 to 4 times a day: for hypertension, arthritis, fluid retention, pain, anxiety, depression, cholesterol, etc. I told the mother that she needed to see another doctor because taking that many drugs simultaneously would probably cause kidney failure. It did and she died within 2 months. This Dr. Patel has been most notably implicated in performing unneccesary surgery, diagnosing conditions that there was no evidence existed and not diagnosing conditions that had obvious signs.
"If YOU see malpractice, it is YOUR ethical and legal obligation to file a report about it with your Hospital Q.A. Committee. If the matter is not dealt with appropriately at that level, then it is YOUR ethical and legal obligation to file a report with your State Medical Licensing Q.A. Board."
You are quite right. But nurses who report such incidents can be setting themselves up for a hard time in the future if the doctor they report is not fired. And possibly even if the doctor is fired. Doctors are considered "untouchable".
This man should not be 'banned' from anywhere. There are plenty of poor people who may not be able to afford the best healthcare and so should have the option of risking their lives with an incompetant one.
Cruel? Not at all, actually the opposite.
However, lying about your qualifications and past disciplinary problems is in breach of contract. And the various organizations should be able to prevent him from practicing under their name.
You are quite right. But nurses who report such incidents can be setting themselves up for a hard time in the future if the doctor they report is not fired. And possibly even if the doctor is fired. Doctors are considered "untouchable".
Actually, nurses can file "Disruptive Physician" complaints at the drop of a hat and make any doctor's life a living hell as easily as Jesse Jackson can claim "racism" or a feminist can claim "victim".
The situation you described has not existed for quite a number of years.
right!!! like the communist that she is!
Socialism is
insidious. And it seems
to have taken hold
of even your mind.
"Lay" people are not stupid,
and "greed" ain't evil.
The Left in large part
is fueled by academics
who view the whole world
by the axioms
you have built your posts around.
But do not worry!
If doctors who work
for the AMA are bad,
we can just all go
get medical care
from Vince McMahon's XMA --
they've got rad nurses!
Guy suffer from bipolar disorder?
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