What caught the attention of the feds was illegal Oxcodone prescriptions? Not the women who were harmed or killed at this clinic.
I think that's what makes me the most sad about this clinic. There were scores of complaints, and people have known about the problems with this clinic for literally decades. Yet nobody did a thing about it.
And to think this was all taking place 100 yards from where I did my Medicine rotation.
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With conditions like what's described combined with the foul lackadaisical attitude from the "doctor," I hope that that man never again sees the inside of a medical facility except as a patient. Those poor women.
Also: yet another example of how an office's standard of care trickles down from the main physician. No care provider should ever walk into a facility of their own, with their name on the door/cards, and put up with filth; the proper response is to reschedule appointments, maybe go home to change if you've nothing appropriate on or in the car, and return with cleaning supplies and rolled up sleeves.
What really bothers me is the other individuals that were involved here. If media reports are to believed, there were a couple of medical school graduates who had not completed residency yet.
The fact that the people that were operating his clinic during the day saw the conditions and knew what was going on there but did nothing about it is appalling. I don't understand why he's the only one being charged with a crime.
Correction:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349283/Dr-Kermit-Gosnell-The-women-assisted-House-Horrors-abortion-doctor.html?ITO=1490
It looks like virtually everyone working the facility was charged. My earlier comment was incorrect.
Sued 15 times for medical malpractice?!?!
100 yards. 300 feet. I cannot believe that faculty and staff at the facility where you did your rotation were not abundantly aware of what was going on. How about the ER where the women victims went? Do they get perforated uteruses THAT often? All from the same address? This might be a little bit worse than the illegal abortions that preceded Roe vs. Wade. Sadly, this looks like intentional blindness by health professionals.
Anon -- Perhaps you haven't read the same articles that I have, but according to one press release I saw, an Ob/Gyn at my institution reported that her department had made SEVERAL reports to the authorities over the past decades about women who had come to them from this clinic. Yet, nobody did anything.
(Hence my outrage -- Get it?)
When I saw this on the news the other days it was heart wrenching and wrong in so many ways.
That was an interesting article. I couldn't believe that the Dr. was letting his cosmetologist wife sedate the patients. And I can't understand how the doctor was still in business with 15 malpractice claims.
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