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2/15/2009 10:27:00 PM
And so Patrick Chavis who got something like a 37 on his medical
boards test was picked over Alan Bakke who racked in the low 90s.
When Chavis got his medical degree, Ted Kennedy and the other liberals
danced a jig -- no pun intended -- in the aisles of the US Senate,
extolling the virtues of affirmative action.
But then ... the shit hit the fan.
On June 19, 1997, the California Medical Board suspended his license
to practice medicine, citing his ?inability to perform some of the
most basic duties required of a physician.? Finding him guilty of
gross negligence and incompetence in the cases of three patients?one
of whom had died?California Administrative Law Judge Samuel Reyes said
that letting him ?continue in the practice of organized medicine will
endanger the public health, safety and welfare.? Soon after, the Los
Angeles District Attorney announced that Chavis was the object of a
criminal investigation.
According to medical board investigators, Chavis had engaged in
egregious malpractice while performing liposuction procedures on
patients in a body-sculpting practice he had started as a side
business after taking a cosmetic surgery seminar in Beverly Hills. For
doctors looking for easy cash, liposuction had become a lucrative and
largely unregulated business, and Chavis?s New Attitude Body Sculpting
had flourished, even in hardbitten Compton. But the four day short
course Chavis had attended left him inadequately prepared to handle
complications. Patients who lived told harrowing tales of Chavis?s
post operative neglect when the procedures he had performed went bad.
After one botched procedure, Chavis stashed a patient in his home
instead of admitting her to the hospital. Abandoning her for nearly
forty hours, the doctor refused to return the frantic phone calls of
the patient, who lost nearly 70% of her blood and was admitted to a
hospital with a severe abdominal infection. A second patient told an
almost identical story: a botched liposuction, massive internal
bleeding, and Chavis?s almost inhuman indifference to her suffering. A
third patient was not as lucky. After another botched procedure,
Chavis left her in his office for four and half hours, her blood
pressure plummeting from severe abdominal hemorrhage, which left his
clinic floor puddled with blood. By nightfall she was in cardiac
arrest and died while her husband rushed her to the hospital.
Medical board investigators also heard from a doctor who had worked
with Chavis. Citing ?poor impulse control and sensitivity to patients?
pain,? the doctor gave investigators a tape recording of patients
screaming horrifically, with Chavis responding, ?Don?t talk to the
doctor while he is working,? and, ?Liar, liar, pants on fire.? In
addition, Chavis refused to take responsibility for anything that had
happened to his patients. According to investigators, at one point
Chavis said that it was the husband of the dead patient who should be
brought up on charges, claiming that he had picked her up and put her
into a wheelchair after surgery in violation of procedure. At another
point he said he was the victim of a racist medical system that didn?t
like to see a black doctor do well.
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:12:22 -0700, Moby@dick.com wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:48:14 GMT, home@home.org
>(Vladimir) wrote:
>
>>Observations
>>
>>Although chlamydia in women is a widely distributed STD among all
>>racial and ethnic groups, trends in positivity in women screened in
>>HHS Region X show consistently higher chlamydia positivity among
>>minorities (Figure W).
>
>My advice to you?
>
>Keep your mother, sister, and girfriend off the street.
>