Now, Dr. Death turns lifesaver

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Friday, July 1, 2005

Sydney - Believe it or not Indian-born and Oregon- based
surgeon Jayant "Dr. Death" Patel is a lifesaver.

Patel, who is at the centre of an inquiry into the
suspect deaths of 87 people at Queensland's Bundaberg
Base Hospital, may be an accused in the deaths of eight
patients during his two years at a Queensland country
hospital, but reportedly also saved five lives after
blunders by other medical staff.

According to a clinical audit of 221 of his worst cases
from Bundaberg Base Hospital, which has been reported by
news.com.au, his "unacceptable level of care" contributed
to only eight deaths and, of those, four patients were
already terminally ill.

Led by vascular surgeon Peter Woodruff, the audit team
found Dr Patel "lacked many of the attributes of a
competent surgeon".

However, it further said that the hospital also lacked
several normal safety, quality and complaints systems
promoted by Queensland Health, and "there were a number
of critical events where opportunities for intervention
to occur were possible".

Police and a team of medical experts, including Dr
Woodruff, will now take a closer look at Dr Patel's work
to see if criminal charges are warranted.

The audit report was submitted on Wednesday to Dr Death
inquiry chief Tony Morris, as the testimony of an earlier
witness was brought into question.

Morris recommended that charges of negligence causing
harm be brought against Dr Patel after hearing the
evidence of renal physician Peter Miach early in the
inquiry.

But after seeing a series of hospital charts, Dr Miach on
Wednesday admitted under cross-examination that medical
staff were aware that diabetic Marilyn Daisy had had a
leg amputated and tended to her two days after the
operation, with Dr Patel visiting her six days after
that.

Geoff Diehm, counsel for the hospital's director of
medical services, Darren Keating, showed that Daisy
checked herself out of hospital against medical advice
about a fortnight after the operation, later returning
for dressings and a review by Dr Patel's junior surgical
staff.

However, Dr Miach, the hospital's director of medicine,
reiterated the fact that the sutures in Daisy's leg had
remained there until he sent her to Brisbane, six weeks
after the operation, and that painful surgery was
required to remove them.

The inquiry was also told how Dr Miach, in an interview
with the Crime and Misconduct Commission, said his highly
regarded experience was lost on hospital staff and, while
it would once have bothered him, "these days I regard
these people as yokels".

Dr Miach was not properly registered as a specialist, and
the audit report recommends further examination of his
use of a specialist level Medicare provider number.

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