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Oct 20, 2023 · Former surgeon Jayant Patel operated on approximately 1,000 patients at Bundaberg Hospital. (AAP: Dave Hunt - file photo) That moment would prove a turning point for Toni and for the town of Bundaberg, which would forever be known as the place where Jayant Patel — aka Dr Death — worked.
- Brigid Andersen
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 Davies Inquiry recommended Dr Patel be investigated for fraud, assault and manslaughter. After being extradited back to Australia from the US in 2008 to face charges, he was eventually convicted of three counts of manslaughter in 2010 and sentenced to seven years jail.
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.
- 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
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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Jun 29, 2010 · Look back at the key developments in the investigation and subsequent trials of former surgeon Jayant Patel.
