Musta graduated from the Gudalajara School of Medicine.
Posted on 01/13/2019 8:36:21 AM PST by Signalman
Edited on 01/13/2019 9:44:08 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman's healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor.
The Palm Beach Post reports Ramon Vazquez was responsible for cutting Maureen Pacheco open in 2016 so two other surgeons could perform a back operation.
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Hi Dr Nick!
«¿Dónde está mi copia de Anatomía de Grey?»
$3,000? That’s like a nickle to most of us. Barely worth bending over to pick up these days.
Ramon Vasquez! Another Hispanic doing the unwarranted surgeries American Doctors won’t do!
Musta graduated from the Gudalajara School of Medicine.
A 3K fine and 250K for excising a kidney thinking it was tumor?! Seriously? Quack got off really cheap and easy. Florida’s cap on medical malpractice may help lower health care costs, but also results in occasional injustices like this one. And state medical board’s punishment is a joke.
Perhaps he should have done a biopsy and received a pathology report first.
This happened at Wellington Medical Center, and the reviews on Google don’t look good.
This guy should has his license revoked, as well as the other two. This is competence? How about some common sense? Pffft.
He probably was on a bio-break, voiding, when the nephrology module covered functioning stuff outside the norm.
It should be easy to recognize a kidney. It is full of pee and a tumor is full of Democrats.
Maybe if kidneys had some sort of easily recognizable shape, this wouldn’t have happened.
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Dang, I was too late
I had a benign tumor on my ear removed in the OR due to bleeding risk. I was awake the entire time and from the time the whole tumor was removed to when the pathologist called for the initial report was probably 15-20 minutes. Also couldn’t this doctor see anatomical landmarks like the renal artery or ureter?
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