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Oct 20, 2023 · The brown brick hospital on the main drag into Bundaberg is an unassuming building, but many locals are still traumatised by what went on here when Jayant Patel, aka Dr Death, was director of surgery.
- Brigid Andersen
Jayant Mukundray Patel (born April 10, 1950 [citation needed]) is an Indian-born American surgeon who was accused of gross negligence whilst working at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia. Deaths of some of Patel's patients led to widespread publicity in 2005.
Nov 3, 2011 · Jayant Patel, former head of surgery at the Bundaberg hospital in Queensland, was sentenced to seven years in gaol following a guilty verdict on three counts of manslaughter
- Fiona J. Pacey, Stephanie D. Short, Kirsten Harley
- 2018
- The Wrong Part of The Law?
- Patel’s Original Conviction
- Acting, Or Deciding to Act
- Will Patel’s Appeal Succeed?
It’s difficult to predict what the High Court will decide. But last year the Court of Appeal found that section 282 of the Criminal Code couldapply to cases where patients consent to surgery, as in Patel’s case, contrary to the trial judge’s finding. This means that the case against Patel could have been brought under the ordinary manslaughter prov...
The relevant part of the Criminal Code under which Patel was convicted provides that: Taken at face value, this section seems to require anyone conducting surgery or medical treatment to carry out that surgery competently. The section appears only to impose a requirement to have reasonable skill and use reasonable care “in doing such act” – carryin...
The difficulty is that the words “in doing such act” presuppose the decision to do the act has already been taken, and that reasonable care and skill is required only in doing the act that implements it (the surgery itself). If those words were to apply to the reasonableness of the decision to do the surgery at all, then in cases like Patel’s they’...
There are two main difficulties that the High Court will have to grapple with. First, the interpretation of the trial judge and Court of Appeal seems artificial. It is hard to see that the phrase “in doing such act” could really be meant to include the act of commending surgery, rather than being intended to refer to the “dangerous act” of conducti...
- Andrew Mcgee
Aug 24, 2012 · The High Court has handed down its decision on Jayant Patel’s appeal against his conviction on three counts of manslaughter and one count of grievous bodily harm. It unanimously upheld...
- Andrew Mcgee
Nov 14, 2017 · Dr Jayant Patel gained registration as a medical practitioner in Queensland under Queensland under Medical Practitioners Registration Act 2001 (QLD) Section 135, allowing overseas-trained medical practitioners to work in ‘areas of need’. 40 When applying for registration, Patel failed to disclose disciplinary outcomes from two previous ...
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Mar 8, 2012 · The whistleblower nurse who exposed killer surgeon Jayant Patel has been granted a compensation payout from employer Queensland Health in a confidential out-of-court settlement.
