by James Buchanan

An Indian doctor -through his raging incompetence- has killed a lot more people than the average serial killer. Anyone checking their elderly parent into a nursing home had better check to see if the bean counters running the facility have hired a swarthy collection of Third World MD’s. An MSNBC article reports “Dr. Jayant Patel was allowed to practice medicine in Australia despite having been cited for gross negligence in two U.S. states… A doctor turned off a woman’s life support ventilator in an Australian hospital because the director of surgery, dubbed ‘Dr. Death,’ wanted her bed to operate on another patient, an investigation finds. The surgeon, Jayant ‘Jay’ Patel, 56, is the subject of an official inquiry in the Australian state of Queensland examining why the doctor was permitted to practice medicine in 2003 despite a nearly 20-year history of criticism and sanctions imposed by medical authorities in Oregon and New York as a result of his work practices.”

Most Americans are hopelessly naive about the quality of foreign doctors, engineers and nurses, who are allowed into the United States. Corporate cheapness opens the door for staggering incompetence. Many Third World immigrants commit unspeakable blunders. (There even appears to be a reluctance to condemn horrible Indian doctors or engineers for fear of seeming “racist.”) Most Americans are also under the illusion that even if a colossally incompetent Third World immigrant sneaks into the American work force, he will be speedily exposed and banned from further work. Nothing could be further from the truth. Dr. Patel received a series of slaps on the wrist and restrictions to his practice, and he evaded these restrictions by moving from state to state and finally from America to Australia.

The same article continues “Patel was director of surgery at Queensland’s regional Bundaberg Hospital in 2003-04, despite negligence findings against him in the two U.S. states that resulted in restrictions on his U.S. medical license. Patel left Australia in March, 2005. His whereabouts are unknown… Bundaberg Hospital’s head intensive care nurse, Toni Hoffman, told the inquiry in the city of Brisbane on Tuesday that hospital staff had tried to hide patients from Patel, whom they nicknamed ‘Dr. Death’ because of his botched surgeries. ‘All the nurses in intensive care were seeing these patients dying every day and we couldn’t do anything,’ Hoffman told the inquiry according to transcripts available on Wednesday. ‘We’d taken to hiding patients. We just thought ‘What on earth can we do to stop this man,’ she said.”