Re: Medical Tourism

In article <1114717118.151434.274900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"elgoog" <bjdefend-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In some cases, the surgeon you have in Bombay, might be the same
> surgeon you had in L.A. a year ago.

Yeah, just think, you might end up with Dr. Jayant M. Patel, schooled in
India, medical license restrictions in Oregon, now under investigation
in Australia. Seems he has a difficult time knowing where to snip'n'sew
along with the ensuing challenges of keeping patients alive. Had similar
problems in Oregon.

<http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-10/111
3758427154070.xml&storylist=orlocal>

> The Oregon Board of Medical Examiners restricted his practice in 2000
> following a review of 79 problem cases, including a man whose colostomy was
> performed backward, blocking his gastrointestinal system.
snip
> The 59-year-old man whose colostomy was reversed had gone into surgery for a
> hernia. Another male patient, 65, underwent surgery for cancer of the
> pancreas and died the next day after seven liters of blood pooled in his
> abdomen.
>
> Helen Brooks, 79, of Corvallis had surgery for diverticulitis, an intestinal
> inflammation. But after Patel accidentally cut her ureter ? the tube leading
> from the kidney to the bladder ? three more operations were needed to repair
> the damage before Brooks eventually lost her left kidney.
>
> A 28-year-old man suffering from ulcerative colitis, a bowel disease, began
> to urinate from his rectum after Patel operated on him, accidentally cutting
> the urethra, a tube leading out of the bladder. Three more operations were
> required to correct the problem.

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