deaths from office based anesthesia

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Perhaps a little epidemic... below are four different plastic surgeons...

article from this july 2007:
http://www.kpho.com/news/13662098/detail.html
http://www.azcentral.com/community/northvalley/articles/0711phx-doctor11-ON.html
(somewhere in one of these links i found an 11 page document stating how Dr. normann let a "licensed massage therapist" perform liposuction w/o his supervision.)


other cases found when i had googled for the Normann case
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F0CE3DD113BF93BA3575BC0A96E958260
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4693844/
http://www.odatus.net/Nancy/131-illegal-prescriptions/After%20three%20deaths,%20Tampa%20doctor's%20license%20suspended.htm

 

[Planktonmd]

It's all about money.
These guys (who are everywhere by the way) are giving general anesthesia without even a CRNA.
They have zero knowledge of anesthesia, and many times, zero knowledge of surgery as well.
They deserve no sympathy.

 

[Taurus]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F0CE3DD113BF93BA3575BC0A96E958260

That guy is a piece of work. Two years after losing his license, he confesses to attempted murder of his wife with arsenic.

"The former doctor, Anthony Pignataro admitted in court Friday, 11/3, that he poisoned his wife with arsenic over a period of time. The 42-year old former plastic surgeon could receive 5 to 15 years in jail on top of time he is now serving in connection with other charges. He has been held responsible for the death of a Depew woman about three years ago in a case of plastic surgery go wrong. His wife survives, although still suffering major effects of the poisoning. Prosecutors admitted, after Pignataro's court appearance, that most of their evidence against the man was circumstantial and was the reason they allowed him to cop a plea to first-degree assault. (11/4/00)"

http://www.lockport-ny.com/wnynews.htm

 

[proclivity]

That guy is a piece of work. Two years after losing his license, he confesses to attempted murder of his wife with arsenic.

"The former doctor, Anthony Pignataro admitted in court Friday, 11/3, that he poisoned his wife with arsenic over a period of time. The 42-year old former plastic surgeon could receive 5 to 15 years in jail on top of time he is now serving in connection with other charges. He has been held responsible for the death of a Depew woman about three years ago in a case of plastic surgery go wrong. His wife survives, although still suffering major effects of the poisoning. Prosecutors admitted, after Pignataro's court appearance, that most of their evidence against the man was circumstantial and was the reason they allowed him to cop a plea to first-degree assault. (11/4/00)"

http://www.lockport-ny.com/wnynews.htm

arsenic......that's so 1980s