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 ...
So that means, even if a sponge WAS left, it was due to the Physician’s Assistant or Nursing Assisting overlooking that detail NOT the surgeon himself.
I don’t think it matters how it gets spun, this will leave a mark on Dr. Carson. If it is true, which I suspect it is, given Donald’s mention of it during the “you are not a true Christian” incident.
sharon is racist
My guess is that sponge pants is a fag, just like Barney.
The team leader isn’t going to be the one who gets blamed or sued for such mistakes.
If you are performing a major surgery on a person, and you put a person in charge of a task, and that person mismanages that task to the point of injury, you’re going to get the blame.
Exactly. The buck stops here.
Just like clock work. How long before the female patients are on TV with their lawyer...one Gloria Allred.
In this litigious society, anyone can file a suit true or not. How were they resolved? The circulating nurse was responsible for sponge count. Was there a suit against hospital too.
He was doing leading edge state of the art surgery where the outcomes are not necessarily either predictable or favorable. The conjoined twins could have died. Indeed, with such advanced procedures he’s probably lost his share of patients. Remember Teddy Kennedy who received state of the art surgery for terminal brain cancer and still died from it. In such there will always be at least some family members who feel compelled to blame the surgeon, regardless of whether he did a brilliant job or not. Although a Trump supporter, I’ll give Carson the benefit of the doubt here.
Well, he lives in a pineapple and his best bud is an overweight starfish...................
I do not endorse him for president, however this is a cheap shot. He is recognized as one of the top brain surgeons in the world, accepted cases that no one else would operate on and pioneered new techniques that saved countless live.
If it was a Lib they were better off.
“What difference does it make?”
Here is the problem with that line of thinking. If one wants to be president, one will be held accountable for whatever goes wrong on his or her watch.
The telling part will be how Dr. Carson responds. If he does well, it is a good sign. If he minimizes it or throws underlings under the bus, beware.
There has never been a perfect surgeon. Carson is not at the top of my list, but this kind of hit job is just wrong. Carson, by all accounts, is a successful surgeon.
Hillary Clinton left a slug in Vince Foster’s temple.
Not Kerry with brain surgery Biden. oTOH all democrats look alike. Difficult to tell apart!
The question is, who stands to benefit the most from Dr. Carson’s loss of support?
Carly?
Jeb?
Marco?
None of the above?
Why would the head of PEDIATRIC neurosurgery operate on a 67 year old? Or even see the senior-citizen patient for a consult?
Not that there aren’t serious cases of malpractice, but in medicine one of the highest costs of doing business (or of paying to be treated) is the cost/effect of malpractice insurance. For a neurosurgeon the premiums run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, so delicate is the surgery, and so likely the negative after-effects, regardless of the surgeon’s care/expertise. It somehow is always the doctor’s fault.
If all the Enquirer could find were six malpractice suits, that’s extraordinary.
I suspect for each they could find at least a thousand patients and families whose lives were saved/improved by Dr. Carson.
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