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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