Rotations at private clinics

docB said:

When I did IM (Temple, Class of '00) i spent 3 days a week in private clinics. My FP rotation was also at a private clinic.

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GrandMasterB said:

Nick, are you trying to find out information for that lawsuit you have been posting questions about for the past few months?

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docB said:

Oh ----! I thought this was a serious question. Thanks for the tip off.

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Nick99 said:

It all happened in private clinic. The surgeon is otolaringology specialist and he performed nose cosmetic surgery. The patient paid expensive surgery as cosmetic surgeries are not covered, of course. Surgeron brought someone and let do part of the surgery without patient's consent. Patient had very serious complications after and needed two more surgeries to fix the problem. The surgeon claimed that it was resident. Name of that resident was not written down in patient's chart or anywhere else, so it officially looks like that person ( called resident ) was not present at the clinic at all. Surgeon did not want to tell patient who was it and after patient's long time insisting he gave name of the resident. After another long time patient discovered that that resident whose name was given actually was not the one who was present at the clinic that day. As being pressured that resident ( whose name was given ) admitted that he was not there at all on the day of the surgery. The surgeon still does not want to reveal the name of the person who was there and did part of the surgery. Just another point that there is no any cooperation between that private clinic and any medical teaching insitution, at least not official.
Can you please coment this case? What do you think what kind of consequencies that surgent can experience if everyhting proved? What about that resident who accepted to play role like he was there to cover up for someone whose identity is still secret? Does surgeon have to tell who really was there?
And most importantly what do you think how much patient can get in court. It all happened in Canada.

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Nick99 said:

Hi folks,
do you know where records about rotations are being kept? Where all the records go? I mean where I can possibly try to get records about my all rotations during residency? What kind of records it's possible to get: where the rotations was, time ( period of time ) and date of the rotations, name of the attending doctor...anything else???

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Nick99 said:

Thank you. Sorry for confusion I meant my own records, of course. Do you know for how long those records are being kept. Is it possible to get it after few years? And again what kind of information these records contain: time, date of rotation, place etc, what exactly, I might need it for court.
Thank you

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docB said:

Based on your other posts it sounds like you are trying to get info about who might have been working in the ENT office mentioned above. I initially thought you were seeking info out of an interest in doing rotations in a private clinic. That can't be the case as you have stated that you have already done a residency:


I doubt that you are a doctor. I think it's very likely that you are the patient mentioned in the case presented and are trying to get input about pending litigation.

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Nick99 said:

Actually, I am the resident who really was there and made a mass. Now my residency is in jeopardy. Resident whose name was given was cover up. He was in the game as he did finish his residency at the time he agreed to cover up. But now he went out of the game. Is it clear now?

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Nick99 said:

Actually, I am the resident who really was there and made a mass. Now my residency is in jeopardy. Resident whose name was given was cover up. He was in the game as he did finish his residency at the time he agreed to cover up. But now he went out of the game. Is it clear now?

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docB said:

So you're saying you are, in fact, Dr. Nick?

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docB said:

Based on your other posts it sounds like you are trying to get info about who might have been working in the ENT office mentioned above. I initially thought you were seeking info out of an interest in doing rotations in a private clinic. That can't be the case as you have stated that you have already done a residency:


I doubt that you are a doctor. I think it's very likely that you are the patient mentioned in the case presented and are trying to get input about pending litigation.

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sdnetrocks said:

I would tend to agree. This all seems very shady... For one thing, unless you're an IMG, your writing skills strongly argue against you being an MD.

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Nick99 said:

Hi,
I am at my last 4th year of ENT residency. When that thing happened I was at my first year. Now, at almost the end of my residency my residency is in jeopardy. And it is serious. Attending surgeon invited me to his private clinic as he was a good friend of mu father. He let me do part of the surgery and it went wrong. I did not have any experience at the time. Now, patient sues the surgeon,the clinic and that guy - former resident who played cover up role. They didn't take it seriously at the time. But now it became really serious as the cover up is discovered. So they probably will tell that it was me as that guy already admitted that it was not him actually and that he was not there when that happened. We never had any rotation at any private clinic that's why there's no trace that I were there at all. Now I'm trying to get as much as info as possible about how it is when it is regualr thing.
Sorry for my writing, I type very fastly and don't check after, and I'm not IMG but I immigrated just before medical studies.

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sdnetrocks said:

Dr. Nick - I'm curious - could you describe what the operative mistake was? how you made it? how it was discovered? what was done in the 2 subsequent operations to repair it?

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