deepthought wrote on Mar 13
th, 2008 at 4:46pm:
Aussie wrote on Mar 13
th, 2008 at 4:29pm:
deepthought wrote on Mar 12
th, 2008 at 10:27pm:
Aussie wrote on Mar 12
th, 2008 at 10:20pm:
No, just a Lawyer who knows and understands his professional vocation.
Lawyers have choices Aussie. While you may have no regard for those who allegedly suffered at the hands of Patel and a great deal of regard for the alleged instigator, I feel the opposite.
My regard is to ensure every bastard gets a fair trial, and this bloke has no chance!
And how happy are the dead.
Well, according to his widow, Gerry Kemps is laughing in his grave. (I know these people DT.......................Bundaberg is my home town.)
Maria Bramich holds a picture of her father, Des, who died after being operated on by Dr Patel.
The doctor who left a town for deadWhen he started work in Bundaberg on April 1, 2003,
Jayant Patel told the locals they were lucky to have him. Nothing was beyond him, even
in a place like provincial Queensland, where the facilities, he sneered, were "third world".
Over the next two years Dr Patel operated on 867 patients in Bundaberg, many of them several times. He was charming, brash, loud, confident and hard-working - a surgeon with just the right blend of arrogance and assurance. Only he wasn't, strictly speaking, a surgeon at all.
On April 1, 2005, Bundaberg hospital bosses approved Dr Patel's invoice for a $3547 one-way ticket to the US despite knowing he was up to his neck in accusations of fatal incompetence. They also knew he had been banned from practising in New York and been found guilty of gross negligence in Oregon.
Dr Patel, already dubbed "Dr Death" in local headlines, simply flew away, and the hospital picked up the tab. Where he is now, no one is sure. Maybe he's still in the US; perhaps he is back in his native India.
This week,
hearings began into the deaths of 87 of Dr Patel's patients, 20 more than previously known. But the investigation, which has the sweeping powers of a royal commission, is not only concerned with fatalities.
It is also looking at claims of needless suffering under Dr Patel's scalpel.
Know these people too?