Posted on 10/07/2015 10:44:28 AM PDT by jimbo123
Judging by White House wannabe Ben Carson’s track record as a neurosurgeon, his presidential campaign should be declared dead on arrival!
In a bombshell investigation into his medical career, The National ENQUIRER has exclusively learned the now retired doc allegedly butchered one patient’s brain — and EVEN left a sponge in another’s skull!
According to at least six malpractice lawsuits against Carson obtained by The ENQUIRER, the Republican candidate allegedly rushed patients into surgery, and brandished a scalpel like a meat cleaver!
“He’s totally untrustworthy!” one former patient, Karly Bailey, told The ENQUIRER. The Florida woman claimed Carson spent “maybe 14 minutes” with her and her parents before performing a delicate brain tumor operation that ruined her life at age 9.
“My parents told him they weren’t authorizing him to remove the whole tumor because of the risk,” said Karly, now 27.
“But he did what he goddamned pleased! He tried to remove all of the tumor, and injured my nerves and brain stem.
“I was paralyzed on my right side. I’ve never fully recovered. I have chronic fatigue, and my eyes dance around. It’s like having permanent vertigo. My face droops and people are really cruel.”
Karly’s family slapped Carson — then director of pediatric neurosurgery at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital — with a lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
Do they ever stop and think how ridiculous these accusations are? They may as well say that a writer brandished a pencil like a baseball bat. It's an absurd and feeble attempt at propaganda and, sadly, too many idiots will be sucked in by it.
I can't speak on his bedside manner or operating procedures....and I'm not trying to defend him, but I would bet the scrub nurse or tech didn't do a proper sponge count that is required before closing the surgical wound.
With that said, I'm still wary of Carson. My gut tells me he could be a bait/switch guy.
Clinton wants FioRINO as the GOPe candidate so they can recycle the Boxer campaign against her.
But, I wonder why The Enquirer has never been able to discover any of Obama's former girlfriends, or get and of his transcripts from Occidental or Columbia...or even find someone at Columbia that remembers seeing Obama in class.
A big if. See my #20. I wonder if there are actual verdicts (no settlements, but verdicts). A huge number of suits are settled to save money in the long run.
Did John Kerry have brain surgery??
That's what I remembered, too.
Various posters think this has Fiorina's fingerprints on it. I think it's Clinton, or at least one of her proxies.
Clinton lost to Obama in 2008, because the symbolism of a black man as President was more compelling than a woman as President. She isn't going to allow that to happen again.
Exactly, I don’t want to comment on these cases, because surgeries fail, and surgeons even the best are human and are going to make mistakes... sadly those mistakes can cost lives. You can’t find an active surgeon who hasn’t botched a procedure or been sued... doesn’t diminish the outcomes when they do... but citing a handful of suits over a lifetime career for a surgeon is not an example of someone who has gone rogue.
This is a hatchet job.
Every physician has multiple malpractice suits brought against them. There isn’t an attorney out there that doesn’t know this.
If you’ve had a relative that is a patient, all you have to do is find the right attorney operating under the stairs of some back ally, to wind up in court for a lucrative settlement.
Every surgery like this involves a team. The idea Carson personally left a sponge in someone’s head, is like someone saying the quarterback is responsible for every ball dropped by his receivers, or every ball fumbled by another team member.
I wouldn’t be all that surprised if Carson and his team did make some errors over the length of his career. Humans do make mistakes.
Lets face it, you’re operating on someone’s brain. Outcomes are not always going to be what the patient or their family wants. That does not mean that malpractice occurred.
Someone’s recollection after the event is not proof that the physician actually did anything wrong either. All a family member has to do is make a few false claims, and the money rolls in, guilty or not.
This is a bush league hit on Carson.
I may not think he’s the right guy to be president, but this is a very corrupt thing to do to a man with a distinguished career.
His brain IS a sponge!.....................
And so it begins. Carson should have known this was coming. I think this hit piece is coming from Jebbie and Rove.
Give me the Number 1 brain surgeon in the US and I bet we will find malpractice suits. It’s a tough job.
Neurosurgeon specialty probably has very very high malpractice insurance rates.
Could be Jeb!
Romney’s campaign ran the same way as Jeb! is doing: Ruthlessly and systematically ATTACK vigorously EVERY repubbie opponent. Then stop after the nomination and spend your time defending Obola and Clinton and their health care “planning” ...
Good point.
Yeah, and I heard that when he separated those Siamese twins a sponge got chopped in half during the surgery and a half a sponge was left in each brain.
Great point. They can find dirt on ANYONE they want to....where are the 0 records/college chums?
Like everyone else, it’s time for Carson’s “surgical record” to be looked at. He’s fair game.
Maybe the patient was a Democrat and the sponge WAS the brain?
I remember Trump saying that Carson was not a very good surgeon.
Hahahahaha
Lol. Now that’s funny
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