By Julie Sevrens Lyons Mercury News Kaiser Permanente officials on Tuesday confirmed a third case in which a patient at a South Bay hospital died after a medication error. On Christmas Eve, a patient whose identity has not been revealed died as a result of a medication error at the Kaiser Santa Clara Medical Center.… Read More »
Sunday, November 06, 2005, from The Oregonian: SUSAN GOLDSMITH and DON COLBURN Dr. Jayant M. Patel was a surgical star. Just three years after he was hired by Kaiser Permanente Northwest in 1989, the HMO gave him the job of training its young surgeons. Patel gravitated to the toughest cases, confidently rebuilding colons and removing… Read More »
By Julie Sevrens Lyons Fri, Nov. 04, 2005 – Mercury News Christopher Wibeto wasn’t the only South Bay Kaiser patient to die this year after receiving the wrong medication. In July, a 12-year-old girl hospitalized at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Santa Clara was mistakenly given a double dose of epinephrine, which speeds up the heart rate,… Read More »
November 2, 2005, SAN JOSE (AP) — A chemotherapy patient died after his doctor mistakenly administered medication intended for another patient, state investigators found. Christopher Robin Wibeto, 21, died three days after a cancer-fighting drug called vincristine was improperly injected into his spine in August, the state Department of Health Services said Tuesday. The agency… Read More »
From Associated Press: An Indian-trained surgeon linked to the deaths of at least 87 patients in Australia over two years had been given glowing references by six former colleagues in the United States, despite having been cited for negligence there earlier, according to copies of the references obtained by The Associated Press. Jayant “Jay” Patel,… Read More »