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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.
- March 2005
- April 2005
- September 2005
- November 2006
- February 2009
- June 2010
- November, 2010
- March 2, 2011
- August 24, 2012
- August 30, 2012
Queensland MP Rob Messenger raises concerns in State Parliament about Patel's competence following a tip-off from Toni Hoffman.
Patel resigns and is flown back to the US by Queensland Health. Media scrutiny reveals Patel had been banned from performing some surgery in the US due to negligence. The then Queensland premier, Peter Beattie, announces an inquiry, headed by Tony Morris QC.
Morris inquiry axed after Supreme Court rules Commissioner Morris showed ostensible bias. Second inquiry headed by former Court of Appeal Judge Geoff Davies AO begins.
Warrants issued for Patel's arrest on 16 charges, including manslaughter, grievous bodily harm, fraud.
Patel faces committal hearing in the Brisbane Magistrates Court and is committed to stand trial on 13 charges including three counts of manslaughter.
Patel found guilty of three counts of manslaughter and one count of grievous bodily harm after one of the Queensland Supreme Court's longest running trials.
Patel's appeal against his the conviction and sentencing due to be heard, but delayed when his legal team said it does not have the money proceed.
Appeal hearing begins in Brisbane. Patel's lawyers argued the appeal was on the grounds the jury's verdicts were unreasonable, Patel was denied a fair hearing, and the sentence was excessive. Patel's appeal also alleged the presiding judge made several errors, such as not discharging the jury on two occasions. The Queensland Attorney-General also a...
The High Court unanimously upholds Patel's appeal, saying that a "miscarriage of justice had occurred" because the prosecution "radically changed its case" in a way that made much of the evidence that had been admitted irrelevant. He was released from jail on conditions that he report to police three times per week.
Queensland's Director of Public Prosecutions confirms Patel will face retrial on manslaughter and grievous bodily harm charges.
Jul 6, 2010 · A former surgeon at a Queensland hospital, Dr Jayant Patel (BMJ 2005;330:985, doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7498.985; BMJ 2008;337:a1065, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1065), has been sentenced to seven years in jail for killing three of his patients and causing grievous bodily harm to another.
- Bob Burton
- 2010
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
May 28, 2005 · Somewhere in that void between management and the medical workers, rumblings and complaints about gun surgical import Jayant Patel just disappeared. Intensive care nurse Toni Hoffman – whose evidence opened the inquiry this week and who is hailed locally as the Erin Brockovich of this story – sent an email to Keating complaining about Patel ...
The actions triggered Commissions of Inquiry that investigated malpractice allegations against Dr Patel, the Director of surgery at Bundaberg Hospital between 2003 and 2005, and led to his eventual resignation and downfall.
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