Posted on 05/21/2005 7:15:04 AM PDT by nuconvert
Bipolar, maybe, or he's abusing some drug intermittently
Over here. I think you're in deep stuff.
He is lucky they banned guns in Australia.
And, as you may know, bipolar individuals are second only to schizophrenics in their incidence of drug abuse.
You wrote:
Dr Patel was practising surgery in New York, before an April 2001 order from the New York Board for Professional Medical Conduct forced him to surrender his physician's licence.
[snip]Among the cases that led to the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners' findings in November 2000 were:
• A man, 65, who died in November 1994 two days after Dr Patel performed pancreatic surgery. He had seven litres of blood in his abdomen.
• A woman, 83, who died in November 1996 of post-operative complications, seven days after Dr Patel performed pancreatic and colon surgery. She was found with a litre of blood in her abdomen.
• A man, 67, who died in September 1997 the day after Dr Patel performed liver surgery. He had almost two litres of blood in his abdomen.
• A man, 59, who permanently lost gastrointestinal function in August 1997 after Dr Patel performed a colostomy "backwards".
My Reply: Hmmm looks to me like he ight be a "brilliant" cutter but not much of a sewer (spelling? to sew)
Bwaaa Ha Haa!! That is funny. You are joking? Right?
You wrote:
There is only two professions where licensed and titled individuals 'practice' their trade. Lawyers and doctors!
Everyone else just performs their duties without practicing on the client.
My Reply: I would add CPA's to your list. Get a bad CPA and you can be out a ton of money. A good CPA might even be more important than a good lawyer. You use your CPA a heck of a lot more than your lawyer.
[snip]Among the cases that led to the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners' findings in November 2000 were:
November, December, January, February, March, April. They didn't let this thing lie around. I think anyone who was screwed up between the second malpractice and April ought to be able to sue his fellow doctors that let him practice all that time.
Beauty operators, barbers, and other peripherally health related professions sometimes too. Oh, and in Louisiana, florists!!
I know medical boards are made of PHYSICIANS and civilians.
As I said, you think MD's might be involved somewhere?
And let's not even get into the AMA.
Absolutely!
Bwaaa Ha Haa!! That is funny. You are joking? Right?
No, I am not joking.
THAT IS THE LAW!
If a Nurse witnesses malpractice and does nothing about it and there is harm to that patient or another patients as a result of that failure to report, that Nurse can liable for civil damages, loss of her license and even criminal prosecution if the case merits it.
Nurses break the law at their own risk.
"Bwaaa Ha Haa!! That is funny. You are joking? Right?" will not impress the Judge at all.
You are right, it is the law.
How frequently does a nurse report it is another issue.
There's no way that Nurse can tell if the Surgeon sewed up the patient correctly inside - he can see the stitches, she can't. In other situations she isn't expected to watch everything... so if she DOES see something funny that she could plausibly deny, it's kind of like shoot, shovel, and shut up.
Did they not keep track of their vital signs in IC?
• A man, 59, who permanently lost gastrointestinal function in August 1997 after Dr Patel performed a colostomy "backwards".
Exactly how is that accomplished?
Yes. They are involved "somewhere",
So, what's your point?
If you think their involvement makes the Boards untrustworthy, then volunteer for appointment to your State Board and make sure that they don't get away with whatever hanky-panking you think they do at the Board.
And let's not even get into the AMA.
No, please, let's get into the AMA.
The AMA is a lobby group that has no more authority over a single doctor in the U.S. than the NRA has authority over a single gun owner in the U.S.
Neither I nor the majority of physicians in the U.S. even belong to the AMA and yet tin-foil hat references to the AMA boogeyman are always dragged out.
What, exactly, has the AMA boogeyman done to have me bother to even open their junk mail rather than automatically throwing the AMA junk mail in the trash can as I have for the past 25 years?
"So, what's your point?"
My point is that Dr's protect their own.
It isn't the AMA boogeyman. It's the AMA money, the AMA dr's and the AMA lawyers. There's no tinfoil in the influence they have.
Then that is part of the problem.
The concept of the M.D. (Minor Diety) surrounded by subservient syncophants went out a few decades ago.
The concept of the "Healt Care Team" is the current model.
If some M.D.'s and R.N.'s are stiil stuck in 1955, then they need to get with the program and join the 21st Century.
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