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Posted on 06/13/2026 9:27:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Americans have been assured that we’re importing the “best and brightest” foreigners the world has to offer.
So, when a story like this hits the internet, people are going to wonder what the hell is going on. Because the public has been sold a very specific story about these amazing standards, credentials, and competence from immigrants who come here to work and are placed in positions of tremendous trust.
Apparently, that’s not entirely true.
This case we’re about to share with you is a complete and total nightmare.
According to a lawsuit filed in Oregon by the parents of a 13-year-old girl, an Indian doctor at Oregon Health & Science University allegedly implanted her heart valve upside down. Of course, her heart wouldn’t work. This poor child spent 18 days hooked up to machines while doctors discussed end-of-life care and even organ donation.
The Indian surgeon’s name is Dr. Ashok Muralidaran, and the fact that he’s Indian is a major reason why this story has gone viral. How on earth could something this catastrophic happen inside a major American children’s hospital by a supposedly qualified surgeon?
He installed a child’s heart the wrong way. This is a horror show.
Melissa:
Horrifying medical malpractice by Indian doctor named Ashok Muralidaran at OHSU. A 13-year-old Oregon girl’s heart valve was implanted upside down during surgery by Dr. Ashok . Her heart wouldn’t restart. For 18 days she was on life support while doctors told her devastated parents she was dying, discussed end-of-life care, and even organ donation.
Seattle Children’s fixed the catastrophic error in one procedure. Her heart started working immediately. She’s now making a “miraculous recovery.”
This level of negligence is unforgivable. Praying for full healing for this brave girl.
The lawsuit is still pending, and OHSU can’t comment right now because of the litigation. But if this is true, this is the type of epic failure that raises some very serious questions about oversight, accountability, and how many checks failed before a 13-year-old girl ended up on life support.
It also has a lot of people rightfully questioning the “best and brightest” narrative that’s been shoved down our throats for decades.
And it’s not just the left that pushes this messaging. Republicans have also been doing it for years now. Even President Trump pushes this idea.
And look, we get it. There’s talent all over the world. But there are also subpar standards in many countries, which means their “best” would actually be our worst. And it’s fair to talk about that openly… it’s actually a safety issue at this point.
The full article shows just how terrifying this was for the family. The girl’s parents were supposedly told her heart was failing because of the “shock of surgery,” while the real problem was something way more basic and horrifying.
Oregon Live:
The parents of a 13-year-old Oregon girl have filed a $17 million lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University, contending that their daughter’s heart wouldn’t restart after surgical staff at the Portland hospital mistakenly installed a heart valve upside down.
Steven and Lori Stokes say their daughter endured a harrowing 18 days hooked up to heart-pumping and blood-oxygenation machines before doctors in Seattle discovered the error.
In the days leading up to that discovery, the Stokeses’ lawsuit says OHSU told them their daughter’s heart was malfunctioning because of the “shock” of surgery. According to the suit, a palliative care team had begun talking to the family about “end-of-life decision making” and asked whether they wanted to donate their daughter’s organs to others.
The lawsuit alleges that OHSU told the family that their daughter would need an artificial heart or a donor heart, but that the hospital couldn’t perform the procedure and that she was so critically ill that she might not survive the transport to an out-of-state hospital. The suit says the Stokeses embarked on a last-ditch plan to transfer their daughter to Seattle Children’s Hospital and that it was there that they learned that OHSU medical staff had installed the valve the wrong way.
The suit says Seattle surgical staff replaced the upside-down valve with a new one that was positioned the right way and that solved the teen’s problem.
“(The girl’s) heart promptly began functioning sufficiently well that she was successfully removed from cardiac bypass and no longer required ECMO,” the lawsuit states. ECMO refers to the heart-lung machines that helped keep the teen alive for 18 days.
Dear God, this poor family was being slow-walked toward the unthinkable while another hospital found and fixed the alleged problem in one procedure.
This whole mess could’ve gone even more wrong.
Oregon Live:
An OHSU spokesperson declined to comment, citing the pending litigation. Dr. Ashok Muralidaran — the surgeon at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital who the suit says led the original Aug. 14, 2025, surgery on the teen — didn’t respond to a request for comment.
“It’s a complete and egregious screw-up,” said Robert Wagner, the Portland attorney representing the Stokeses.
Wagner said the teen’s health has dramatically improved since the Sept. 2, 2025, surgery in which Seattle doctors corrected the problem.
“She is making a miraculous recovery,” he said.
The suit seeks about $4 million for medical bills, most of it to pay for care at OHSU and Seattle Children’s Hospital. It seeks the rest for the teen’s “prolonged hospitalization” and “permanent physical and emotional injury,” as well as her parents’ “emotional trauma” and “profound suffering.”
It’s really shocking that it took 18 long days to find this mistake.
This story is heartbreaking, pun intended.
But it also comes at a time when Americans are seriously questioning the immigration system… yes, even the legal one.
Because this story and many others like it are starting to prove that the “best and brightest” slogan may not be real.
We deserve real answers.
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And he still has his license. Who’s next?
l am in Indiana an my health care group is starting to look like it is the middle East or India.
It has gotten creepy. Are Americans and white folks no longer becoming doctors?
Every hospital and clinic I’ve been to has more than a fair quota of them.
Education and training
Degrees
M.B.B.S., 1999, Madras Medical College
Internship
General Surgery, Government General Hospital, Chennai, India, 2001
Residency
General Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Fellowship
Research Fellowship, Fetal Care Research Foundation, Chennai, India, 2002
Research Fellowship, Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Southern California, 2003
Research Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Stanford University, CA, 2006
Thoracic Surgery, Yale University/Yale New-Haven Medical Center, New Haven, CT, 2011
Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Stanford University, CA, 2013
Certifications
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 2012
American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Subspecialty: Congenital Cardiac Surgery, 2014
Memberships and associations:
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Finance and Law.
So who and how are these people taking over our health care? This is sick.
Like the old joke:
What do you call the guy that graduates in dead last place from his medical school?
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You call him ‘Doctor’.......................
You might want to take a close look at what medical schools in this country (under the radar, mostly) have been doing in the name of AA and DEI for decades. Then ask your question again and see if you can’t answer it.
I’m on my third doctor in as many years, since the turnover rate at the local medical center is quite rapid.
I had a Filipino woman doc, then an Italian male doc, then a black female PA, then an Indian guy. My next appointment is in November. I expect I’ll get a Extraterrestrial next............
In another example, Jesica Santillan died after her transplant team did not even verify the blood type of the organ donor.
A local surgeon here removed a patients liver by mistake............
It's impossible for me to believe that someone at the hospital did not figure out that the valve was installed improperly. This girl had classic symptoms of an improperly installed valve and the hospital should easily have caught it with diagnostics and imaging.
I think a criminal investigation is justified to determine if the doctors or the hospital covered this up.
Q.~ What do you call the guy that got a “D” in doctor school?
A.~ Doctor.
This guy makes Dr Nick Riviera look good.
“The girl’s parents were supposedly told her heart was failing because of the “shock of surgery.”
That they lied about it is telling, but that is the US corporate way. Lie, cheat, and obfusticate any way you can. Never, ever show any sense of responsibility.
On weekends he is a circus rent-a-clown with giant shoes and a collection of juggling pins.
“...medical malpractice...”
Interesting this is brought up.
“Medical malpractice is negligence committed by a professional health care provider—a doctor, nurse, dentist, technician, hospital or hospital worker—whose performance of duties departs from a standard of practice of those with similar training and experience, resulting in harm to a patient or patients.”
Dr. Muralidaran earned his medical degree from Madras Medical College in India. He completed his residency in general surgery at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. He completed research fellowships at the Fetal Care Research Foundation in Chennai, India; in hepatobiliary surgery at the University of Southern California; and in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University. He also completed fellowships in thoracic surgery at the Yale University/Yale New Haven Medical Center and in pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at Stanford University.
The people for licensing the doctor in Oregon are the Oregon Medical Board.
I could find only one other malpractice action taken for him and that happened in 2017 on a four month old child. Information here:
https://omb.oregon.gov/Clients/ORMB/Public/VerificationMalpractice.aspx?EntityID=1525600
He has taken all the legal and expected steps by the medical community to be certified and supposedly competent. I could find no information other than it happened, not how, why, or whether on purposes or not doing his job correctly. Don’t know how to prove malpractice on this like his previous case like it in 2017.
wy69
“I’m on my third doctor in as many years, since the turnover rate at the local medical center is quite rapid.
I had a Filipino woman doc, then an Italian male doc, then a black female PA, then an Indian guy. My next appointment is in November. I expect I’ll get a Extraterrestrial next............”
It’s become impossible in southern Oregon. After being without my entire community After the Almeda fire, I have gotten nothing but malpractice and incompetence. Between them not speaking English and general stupidity, I can’t get medical care. I have a breast that is rotting and gray! I can’t get a scan! Been waiting for months. The doctor can’t get the imaging instructions correct! Its the right side and she insists it is the left with symptoms i never said! As of yesterday they say I have to go back to the doctor! I waited 3 months for that appointment.
I’m done with medical. Its destroying my mind.
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