I just don't know even what to say to this. That is absolutely devastating for the family. This story is absolutely insane. This sounds like something you'd read about in a third-world country in the 19th century.
The fact that he just kept doubling down and then even tried to cover it up is chilling. What is his deal? He just wants to play doctor? Does he get heavily paid for surgeries?
I see this on an 4 year old review:
> I truly believe, and have been told, it sounds like the outpatient surgery benefits him more monetarily than doing it during my 8 day hospital stay.
Perhaps this guy is just in it for the money and totally out of his league.
It makes you wonder why checks and balances failed to allow this guy to practice medicine and who wasn't speaking up or being listened to. It's pretty scary if there are doctor's like this out there.
My paternal grandmother had an involuntary radical hysterectomy with an emergency appendectomy either because of classist eugenics against enlisted military wives post-WWII or, as she said, the Navy surgeon was drunk. Nothing ever happened to said surgeon.
There's a million podcasts out there about negligent butcher doctors. To be truly shocked, listen to Dr Death from Wondery to make a start: Dr. Duntsch https://wondery.com/shows/dr-death/season/1/
AND beware getting emergency surgery overseas.
I know a surgeon who warned that if for example you get appendicitis they'll take out other bits from you to claim more insurance money. I also know a person who appears to be a victim of this.
If you can possibly avoid it, go back home ot get surgery - assuming you live in a country with a trusthworthy medical system.
I'm sure I and many other concerned patients and potential-patients are asking; how does something like this even occur? What institutional failures in medicine led to two grossly negligent and incompetent surgeons being given the controls to peoples' lives? What safeguards were neglected at the academic and organisational layers, and what are we doing so that this does not occur again? If institutions are doing their job, no case like this should ever get to the point where a prosecutor needs to stop and clean things up, much less to the first maiming of a patient.
Texas has laws that limit medical malpractice suit judgement amounts. This is because it's a common talking point among the very ignorant in the US that healthcare is expensive because of "Bullshit lawsuits and medical malpractice insurance and that mcdonalds coffee lady".
Texas still doesn't have radically or meaningfully cheaper healthcare than places who have not implemented that scheme.
Also nice to see Greg Abbot personally intervening in the lawsuits (as AG) to ensure that justice was not served.
Medical malpractice consistently ranks in the top three leading causes of death in the US. Student use of AI to pass courses can only exacerbate the issue.
I have hunted and killed 2 deer and butchered them along with 3 pigs... and even I can tell the difference between a liver and a spleen. People have higher opinions of doctors than they actually deserve.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 37.0 ms ] threadThe fact that he just kept doubling down and then even tried to cover it up is chilling. What is his deal? He just wants to play doctor? Does he get heavily paid for surgeries?
I see this on an 4 year old review:
> I truly believe, and have been told, it sounds like the outpatient surgery benefits him more monetarily than doing it during my 8 day hospital stay.
Perhaps this guy is just in it for the money and totally out of his league.
It makes you wonder why checks and balances failed to allow this guy to practice medicine and who wasn't speaking up or being listened to. It's pretty scary if there are doctor's like this out there.
AND beware getting emergency surgery overseas.
I know a surgeon who warned that if for example you get appendicitis they'll take out other bits from you to claim more insurance money. I also know a person who appears to be a victim of this.
If you can possibly avoid it, go back home ot get surgery - assuming you live in a country with a trusthworthy medical system.
I'm sure I and many other concerned patients and potential-patients are asking; how does something like this even occur? What institutional failures in medicine led to two grossly negligent and incompetent surgeons being given the controls to peoples' lives? What safeguards were neglected at the academic and organisational layers, and what are we doing so that this does not occur again? If institutions are doing their job, no case like this should ever get to the point where a prosecutor needs to stop and clean things up, much less to the first maiming of a patient.
Texas has laws that limit medical malpractice suit judgement amounts. This is because it's a common talking point among the very ignorant in the US that healthcare is expensive because of "Bullshit lawsuits and medical malpractice insurance and that mcdonalds coffee lady".
Texas still doesn't have radically or meaningfully cheaper healthcare than places who have not implemented that scheme.
Also nice to see Greg Abbot personally intervening in the lawsuits (as AG) to ensure that justice was not served.
No profession is immune from this and sometimes ones that appear highly regulated have some of the worst offenders.
This story is both disgusting and, unfortunately, unsurprising.