Texas Surgeon Facing Medical Malpractice Suit

Posted in Medical Malpractice on September 15, 2015

A Texas neurosurgeon has been accused of wide-ranging medical malpractice charges involving 15 patients in the 2 year period between 2011 and 2013. Prosecutors allege that the doctor intentionally hurt his patients, and referred to the doctor’s hands and medical instruments as “deadly weapons.” The doctor is facing 5 counts of aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury and one of causing injury to an elderly person. Four of his patients suffered severe injuries as a result of his spinal operations, and one patient died.

Police are investigating the surgeries, as well as many others, and claim that the doctor knowingly took actions that placed the patients’ lives at risk. In one of the spinal surgeries, the doctor improperly placed screws and plates along the spine. In another surgery, a sponge was left in the patient’s body. The doctor cut a major vein in one patient. And one patient was left with debilitating pain following a surgery in which the doctor operated on the wrong part of her spine. That patient is now dependent on a wheelchair.

If the disfiguring and life-altering operations weren’t bad enough, prosecutors have now come forward with an email the doctor wrote to his girlfriend in December 2011. In the email, the doctor says, “I am ready to leave the love and kindness and goodness and patience that I mix with everything else that I am and become a cold blooded killer.” The defense claims the email was written with a sarcastic tone, but after viewing the email, a judge refused to lower the doctor’s bond. The doctor remains behind bars at this time.

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