Immigrant becomes "Doctor Death" in Australia
BBC News:
Not often are doctors so bad at their jobs that nurses actually resort to hiding patients from them.
But that is precisely what happened at Queensland's Bundaberg Hospital after Dr Jayant Patel started working there in 2003, according to hospital staff.
The realisation of just how many botched operations were carried out by Dr Patel is only now coming to light.
An investigation was launched in March after nurse Toni Hoffmann complained about the large number of procedures performed by Dr Patel which had led to serious complications.
An interim report published on Friday recommended that he should be charged with both murder and negligence - if he is ever found.
Dr Patel fled Australia in April, and while Queensland state authorities want to seek his extradition, his current whereabouts remain unknown.
The case of Dr Patel - whom local media have dubbed "Dr Death" - has caused huge controversy in Australia, not least because it highlights a potentially worrying lapse in checks on overseas medical staff.
Unbeknown to his colleagues, Dr Patel had already been banned from surgery in the US states of New York and Oregon before his arrival in Australia.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 10:49 AM
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I don't understand the need for any first world nation like Australia to import doctors. There like other western countries, there must be way more young people interested in becoming doctors than there are medical school places for them -- everyone knows getting into medical school is very competitive. So if some doctor shortage is the problem, perhaps medical school class sizes can be temporarily raised in a safe way until new schools are built and staffed. Better that than foreign doctors, at least IMO.
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