NEPALESE HOSPITAL PERSONNEL
LEAVE OUR MEDIA OVERLORDS ALONE?
Posted on 07/10/2015 12:32:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Nepal hospital said Friday that CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta incorrectly reported that he operated on an 8-year-old girl after the country’s devastating earthquake in April.
A top official at the Bir Hospital in Kathmandu, Dr. Ganesh Bahadur Gurung, said Friday that the girl, Salina Dahal, never had brain surgery and has recovered from minor head injuries.
Gupta, a practicing brain surgeon, reported days after the April 25 earthquake that he operated on Dahal. CNN said Thursday that it is working to verify the identity of Gupta’s patient, following a published report that he never treated the 8-year-old girl. […]
“There was no operation performed on the child whose name was mentioned in the (CNN) news report. Actually the operation done that day was a 14-year-old whose name he has not mentioned. He has given a false statement there,” Gurung said, adding Gupta was at the hospital as a journalist and not a medical professional. …
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“Whaa....you mean HIPAA doesn’t apply in Nepal?”
Hell, it doesn’t apply here.
“Secured Electronic medical records” for when the government wants to know.
So what?
If he did and the patient died it would just be a really really really lat abortion!
The left lies. Doesn’t surprise me.
"incorrectly reported"Thanks Olog-hai.
If he thought they had HIPAA then likely he felt secure that his little white lie would never be found out.
He suffers from little brown man syndrome!
He works for CNN. The only thing that could be even less credible would be working for Obama.
We’re shocked at this why?
He’s a liberal. You know the rest.
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