Florida Doctor Allegedly Removed Patient's Liver Instead of Spleen, Killing Him

[Waltercat]

How many people assisting watched the Dr. do this?

 

[Jason Freeland]

How many people assisting watched the Dr. do this?

Depends on the scope the doc was using (video or not). If it wasn't a video scope or one with a teaching head, then no one else could see what the doc was doing.

 

[turkeyrun]

Black market liver is big $$$$$$
Maybe not a mistake, per se.

I would think lots of lawyers are talking with the family.

 

[Jason Freeland]

Black market liver is big $$$$$$
Maybe not a mistake, per se.

I would think lots of lawyers are talking with the family.

The article mentions some pretty stringent laws as to who can sue for medical malpractice. I think the only one in this case that could is the widow as someone in their 70s is unlikely to have kids under 25 (possible, just unlikely). Florida has some jacked up malpractice laws.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

It appears that the doctor previously worked as a pathologist before changing.his specialty to general surger and he flashed back long enough to believe he was performing an autopsy. Old habits are hard to break…..

Sounds like he was a crappy pathologist too. He should have known the difference in tissue types.

 

[KOPBET]

It wasn’t his fault. The spleen was so diseased it was 4 times the normal size and had migrated to the other side of the body.





/sarc

 

[Preacherman]

I had shoulder surgery on the 5th of this month and the surgeon came in before they took me back and marked the shoulder to be operated on.

 

[Dr_Mitch]

Doctors and other hospital-affiliated staff murder people using negligence and/or incompetence as the weapon all the time. It's up to you to detect the malfeasance, which means most of the malpractice goes completely undetected.

 

[T. MIKE SMITH]

Liver - it's what's for dinner

 

[KOPBET]

Liver - it's what's for dinner

... and fava beans. And a nice Chianti.