Ex-Kaiser doc Jayant Patel recommended to face manslaughter charge

The following news stories came out an hour or so ago this evening. We have been saying for years that manslaughter is the correct term for anyone in the medical profession that acts in such a reckless manner as Jayant Patel has been documented doing. He did it in the U.S. and he did the same thing in Queensland, Australia. Sadly, Jayant Patel didn't do anything different than many other doctors in this country are routinely doing today. These doctors have made the U.S. a laughing stock because we sit back and let them get away with it over and over. Sadly, the built in financial incentives of the Kaiser three companies enabled and encouraged Jayant Patel and many other doctors with similiar "sick" ethical beliefs to conduct their practice of medicine in a similar manner.

Queensland, Australia put a stop to the Kaiserization of their country by taking a stand and stopping Jayant Patel. When is this country going to get off it's behind and stop the Jayant Patel's right here from continuing their business practices that result in patient deaths?

Report recommends Patel manslaughter charge -
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1520107.htm
The report into Queensland's public hospitals has recommended Dr Jayant Patel be charged with manslaughter over the deaths of patients he treated at Bundaberg Base Hospital.
.... The report recommends Dr Patel be referred to police and charged with manslaughter, grievous bodily harm, assault and fraud.

His former employers also face disciplinary action.
mirrored at: http://www.kaiserpapers.info/gotojailpatel.html

Australian inquiry recommends manslaughter probe
11/29/2005, 8:59 p.m. PT
By MERAIAH FOLEY
The Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — An inquiry into a disgraced surgeon said Wednesday his negligence led to the deaths of 13 patients at a rural Australian hospital and recommended he be investigated for manslaughter.

In its final report, the six-month, 16 million Australian dollar (US$11.8 million; euro10 million) inquiry also recommended that two senior hospital administrators be prosecuted for their roles in hiring and promoting the surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1133327042174890.xml&storylist=orlocal

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17410529%255E3102,00.html
Patel wants his tax refund
Hedley Thomas
30nov05

THE doctor whose negligence led to at least 13 deaths, countless injuries and a cost to Queensland of more than $6 billion wants a refund of taxes he paid during his two-year tenure.

Dr Jayant Patel has instructed his legal team to retrieve documents from Bundaberg Base Hospital to enable him to claim a refund on tax he paid on his $200,000 a year package as director of surgery.

The Oregonian just came out with a 12 page article on Jayant Patel, the surgeon that ran amok, hacking up patients throughout New York, Oregon and Queensland, Australia for years.

I could be polite and say that Jayant Patel was involved in numerous malpractice cases but that is really just too polite for what he has actually done. To not say it like it really is only continues to condone the systemic problems within government systems in place to protect the public. It is time to be coarse and very blunt about this person's professional actions and any others that practice medicine like him. There will be little chance of change unless the public calls it what it actually is.

Now it is time to start patching the holes in the systems in place to protect patients from the likes of the Jayant Patel's of this world. Now is the time to realize that people like him and corporations that profit off of such actions should not be allowed to operate under laws that are written only "on the honor system," without true penalties.

There must be actual penalties placed within these laws. Doctors and corporations are not any different than the rest of the world. Without enforcement capability, laws are nothing more than words written on paper. For those states that do have some enforcement capability using the excuse that there is no money allocated for enforcement is stupid and says to the public that they are simply not doing their job. Even if it is possibly true that enforcement is limited due to funding problems they could at least make the information public so people stand a chance to avoid falling under any butcher's knife.

It is a great article printed in the Oregonian and the following web addys are where you can read about it.

Patel's disturbing record at Kaiser
Despite a series of malpractice cases and negligent surgeries, the HMO saw Dr. Jayant Patel as anything
Sunday, November 06, 2005
SUSAN GOLDSMITH and DON COLBURN
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/malpractice/index.ssf?/base/front_page/1131093370226790.xml&coll=7
tiny URL:
http://tinyurl.com/d5p5p
Mirrored for historical purposes at:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/patelrecord.html