Ten patients died under the care of an embattled surgeon during the roughly 20 months he worked at a Veterans Affairs hospital in southern Illinois, according to a letter released Friday.But wait -- sh*t happens... people die in hospitals, right?
Durbin said last month VA officials told him nine veterans -- all in some way linked to [Dr.] Veizaga-Mendez -- died at the hospital during a six-month period ending in March, during which the hospital would have expected only two deaths.
Hmmm. 9 deaths for this doc, compared w/his peers' average of 2. Now this is starting to sound like a doctor near and dear to us Fort Campbell vets "lucky" enough to have seen Dr. Tw----e at Blanchfield/BACH. A proud combination of "inept" and "obstructionist"... with dashes of passive aggression to make the mix really fun. We only managed to get any help w/that after the Scandal Of Which We May Not Speak, which wasn't even (directly) medical. But not until he'd severely screwed us up.
I wonder how this punk finally got in trouble?
[He] worked at the Marion hospital from January 2006 until he resigned Aug. 13, three days after a Kentucky man apparently bled to death after undergoing gallstone-removal surgery Veizaga-Mendez performed.
Ew.
I don't usually have the heart or energy to blog much anymore; every story seems like another droplet in a really big monsoon--something I can't change, but have to live with the consequences--while meanwhile there's some asshole of a weatherman smiling on tv insisting it's only a passing drizzle.
Hopefully [sic] getting into the habit of posting articles like this, keeping commentary to a minimum to try to avoid it snowballing into a rant, will wind up being healthier than closing the page and pretending to ignore it, then having it build up inside and turn cancerous.
More Quickies later :-)
--> Does anyone know what studies have been done on the correlation between blogging & depression, or how soothing/maddening the blog tends to be (compared with other forms of writing or expression)?
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Duh...looks like a risk for "flight to avoid prosecution", no?
Dr. Jose Efrain Veizaga Mendez, born Bolivia 1 February 1939. Graduated Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS) in 1965 Facultad de Ciencias Medicas renamed Facultad de Medicina http://www.umss.edu.bo/
Not an AMA member.
May have another license in New York.
Sturdy Memorial Hospital, 211 Park Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts 02703 and
205 Chauncy Street, Mansfield, Massachusetts 02048
Massachusetts Registration Number 37973 resigned 19 October 2007.
His wife is Dr. Carol Vasconcellos, MD, an oncologist apparently still in Massachusetts.
Lawyer is Alan Jay Goldstein, 55 East Monroe Street 40th Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60603, (312) 346-7500, fax 1-312-580-2201 agoldstein@fagelhaber.com
Bolivian Extradition Treaty, Treaty Document 104-22 of 21 November 1996 see especially Article V: “Extradition shall not be granted when the person sought has been convicted or acquitted
in the Requested State for the offense for which extradition is requested. Extradition shall
not be precluded by the fact that the authorities of the Requested State have decided to
refrain from prosecuting the person sought for the acts for which extradition is requested or
to discontinue any criminal proceedings which have been initiated against the person sought for those acts.”
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