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When surgeons make a slip up produces devastating results.
American citizen, Dr Jayant Patel, was sentenced to 7 years in jail in Australia, for causing the deaths of three patients and grievous bodily harm to another. Patel has also been associated with up to 17 deaths between 2003 and 2005. It is thought he performed the wrong surgery on the wrong people.
Patel will be able to apply for parole in three-and-a-
In Vienna doctors mistakenly amputated the leg of a 91 year-old woman, then were forced to cut off her other leg also. The hospital refused to say whether the doctor was still working for them. An investigation is under way.
The healthy leg was mistakenly amputated from an 86 year-old man, in January 2010, by doctors in Peru. The man had a badly ulcerated leg.
In 2008 surgeons at the Negombo General Hospital, removed the leg of a 48 year-old woman, Sithy Nazeer. She had been booked into the hospital for a wound to be cleaned in the sole of her foot. The patent waiting for amputation was the next in line for surgery.
According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, the powers-that-
Surgeons in a Florida hospital, in 1995, accidentally amputated the healthy foot of a 51 year-old, diabetic, Willie King, who was suffering from gangrene.
A 2006 report disclosed that medical blunders were drastically increasing, with wrong body parts being amputated, that ranged from the wrong hips being taken, the wrong leg, a child mistakenly circumcised, a wrong set of lungs transplanted, to a wrong testicle being removed and a woman given a hysterectomy by mistake.
Ninety patients died, or experienced serious harm, as a result of care they received in public or private hospitals during the 2008/09 period, in West Australian hospitals, according to a Sentinel Event Report. This was double the errors reported in the two previous years. Health Minister Daniel Andrews, said work had begun on an appropriate monitoring system to be in place by 2010.
Studies place the direct and indirect expenses of malpractice as between 5-10% of total medical costs. Compensation payouts to victims increased by 100% in 2005/2006 alone. Payouts vary from $100,000 to several million.
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