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Florida surgeon fined for removing kidney he thought was tumor
Fox 11 ^ | 1/12/2019 | AP

Posted on 01/13/2019 8:36:21 AM PST by Signalman

Edited on 01/13/2019 9:44:08 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

WELLINGTON, Fla. (AP) - The Florida Board of Medicine says a West Palm Beach surgeon has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine for removing a woman's healthy kidney that he thought was a tumor.

The Palm Beach Post reports Ramon Vazquez was responsible for cutting Maureen Pacheco open in 2016 so two other surgeons could perform a back operation.


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: florida; floridaman; floriduh; kidney; pacheco; surgeon; vasquez; westpalmbeach
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To: csvset

“Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr. McGregg—with a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg”


21 posted on 01/13/2019 9:08:48 AM PST by SMGFan
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To: hal ogen
IF he graduated from anywhere.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Former Dem POTUS candidate Howard "Sreamin'" Dean is an alum.

22 posted on 01/13/2019 9:09:08 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Signalman

He’s still practicing, right?


23 posted on 01/13/2019 9:17:01 AM PST by null and void (For a civil society, teach Civics!)
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To: hal ogen

True......they better check him out.......musta falsified documents.


24 posted on 01/13/2019 9:19:05 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Signalman
This is where a good medical education is necessary. I found organs misplaced several times while doing routine surgeries. I also found organs that were suffering atresia, foreign bodies that had migrated into the abdomen, multiple sets of ovaries and uteri in dogs, extra kidneys and organs not where they were supposed to be. Surgery is not something rushed unless the patient is dying on the table.
25 posted on 01/13/2019 9:21:19 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Yes. And if there is centilla of doubt one can always get a biopsy prior to excising a mass. As you know most cancers “feel” differently than a smooth organ surface. If there is a cyst or benign tumor that too can be ascertained by an intraoperative biopsy. It sounds like the one positive biopsy was the wallet biopsy.


26 posted on 01/13/2019 9:28:58 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: CaliforniaCraftBeer

Came here for that.


27 posted on 01/13/2019 9:29:43 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Signalman

Fined!? He should be forever barred from the practice of medicine.


28 posted on 01/13/2019 10:01:29 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Signalman

The story says two important things: It was a pelvic kidney, and he was sued for malpractice but settled the case for “a nominal amount”.

If both of these things are true, he must have had a pretty strong defense. I am not unfamiliar with South Florida plaintiff malpractice attorneys - no way this case settles at all, never mind for “a nominal amount”, unless there are major pro-defense elements not covered in the story.


29 posted on 01/13/2019 10:06:54 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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To: Olog-hai

«¿Dónde está mi copia de Anatomía de Grey?»

En la basura


30 posted on 01/13/2019 11:12:28 AM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: null and void
Yes .Still working .

In Palm Beach Gardens .

This mistake leaves one speechless .

You really need to hand pick your Surgeon and More important the Anesthesiologist .

Recall Bill Clinton mother was very Bad CRNA .

31 posted on 01/13/2019 11:56:39 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselveking/its population here and Canada)
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To: ncalburt

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Anyone that allows a surgeon to touch their body deserves what they get (or lose, as the case may be).


32 posted on 01/13/2019 12:07:03 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ncalburt

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>> “This mistake leaves one speechless” <<

And kidneyless in this case.


33 posted on 01/13/2019 12:08:55 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

There is emergency surgeries in which its due or die .


34 posted on 01/13/2019 12:09:33 PM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselveking/its population here and Canada)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You think he’d be familiar enough with kidney-shaped legumes.


35 posted on 01/13/2019 12:11:54 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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My neck is getting sore from shaking my head today.
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36 posted on 01/13/2019 12:12:37 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor
How surgeons in the operating room ?

The punishment is a Disgrace .

My uncle and Cousins are surgeons .
You do a organ count first .

The lady had a poor lawyer .

37 posted on 01/13/2019 12:14:01 PM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselveking/its population here and Canada)
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To: ncalburt

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Not so in the case of a kidney!

Kidneys renew within hours from simply drinking Juniper berry tea.

Perhaps a ruptured anurism presents a different case.


38 posted on 01/13/2019 12:15:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: ncalburt

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Poor doctor, poor lawyer, judge, and jury, but look at the bright side... oops! no bright side.


39 posted on 01/13/2019 12:18:01 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Olog-hai
«¿Dónde está mi copia de Anatomía de Grey?»

Would be nice if people spoke english around here without trying to impress everyone with their multilingualism........

40 posted on 01/13/2019 1:59:02 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (qu)
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