Re: Medical Tourism

Owen Lowe <noemails@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

Hard to see what this proves - perhaps that it's not a good idea to get
medical care 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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