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Dr. Patel arrested by FBI in Portland
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Story Published: Mar 11, 2008 at 8:22 AM PDT

Story Updated: Mar 11, 2008 at 8:49 AM PDT
By Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon doctor accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at an Australian hospital has been arrested.

The FBI said Dr. Jayant Patel was taken into custody without incident Tuesday morning in Portland.

The 57-year-old Patel was born in India but is a U.S. citizen who had worked for years in Oregon before losing his license after a series of botched surgeries.

The Australian government has been seeking his extradition to stand trial for the deaths of the three patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland.

Patel is to appear in U.S. District Court at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for a hearing on the extradition request.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Per Wiki (note - not considered a definitive source on all texts included):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayant_Patel

Career

Patel was born in Jamnagar in Gujarat, India. Whilst the vast majority of his training was conducted from within the US, he first trained at the M.P. Shah Medical College at Saurashtra University, and obtained a master's degree in surgery. After graduation he moved to the United States where he received further surgical training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine as a surgical intern and resident of surgery. Patel first began to raise alarm bells in 1984 at a hospital in the city of Buffalo where New York health officials cited Patel for failing to examine patients before surgery. Patel was fined US$5,000 and was placed on three years' clinical probation. In 1989, Patel moved to Oregon and began working for Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Portland. Medical staff alleged that he would often turn up, even on his days off, and perform surgery on patients that were not even his responsibility. In some cases, surgery was not even required, and caused serious injuries or death to the patient.

FBI takes Dr. Patel into custody
Posted by The Associated Press March 11, 2008 08:18AM
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An Oregon doctor accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at an Australian hospital has been arrested.

The FBI said Dr. Jayant Patel was taken into custody without incident early this morning in Portland.

Patel, 57, was born in India but is a U.S. citizen who had worked for years in Oregon before losing his license after a series of botched surgeries.

The Australian government has been seeking his extradition to stand trial for the deaths of the three patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland.

Patel is to appear in U.S. District Court at 1:30 p.m. today for a hearing on the extradition request.

An Australian court last November issued warrants for Patel's arrest on three charges of manslaughter and five charges of causing grievous bodily harm to patients he treated at a Queensland hospital.

Patel, 57, quit his job at Kaiser Permanente in 2001 after a series of problematic surgical cases led Kaiser to restrict his practice and the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners to discipline him for negligence.

He moved to Australia to become chief of surgery at the Queensland hospital, where complaints about his surgical technique erupted into a high profile scandal in 2005.

Patel had moved back to Washington County.

An investigation by The Oregonian in November of 2005 found that for more than a decade, state regulators allowed Kaiser Permanente Northwest and Oregon Health & Science University to avoid reporting malpractice claims made against their doctors, despite laws tailored to require such reports.

Legislators crafted the laws to give the state's physician watchdog agency a key tool for finding potentially dangerous doctors. But weak enforcement of the laws has left the state's Board of Medical Examiners missing 18 years' worth of data on malpractice cases involving about one in every seven Oregon doctors.

The investigation found that If Kaiser had been reporting malpractice claims, the first clues about Dr. Jayant M. Patel would have arisen in 1993, when two Portland men sued over operations that left them impotent. During the next three years, Patel's work as a surgeon figured in five more malpractice claims, none of which was reported to the board.

Instead, Oregon regulators learned about Patel in mid-1998, and then only when Kaiser informed them after restricting his practice.



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FBI Arrests Oregon Doctor Wanted In Australia

POSTED: 8:22 am PDT March 11, 2008
UPDATED: 8:51 am PDT March 11, 2008
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A Portland-based doctor accused of manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at an Australian hospital has been arrested.

Dr. Jayant Patel, 57, was arrested without incident at his Washington County home Tuesday morning.

He has been linked to more than 80 deaths in Australia. The Australian government has been seeking his extradition to stand trial for the deaths of the three patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland.

Patel, who was born in India but is a U.S. citizen, has been banned from practicing medicine in Oregon after several surgical mistakes.

Documents related to the case are expected to be released Tuesday and they will explain more about his arrest.

Patel is to appear in U.S. District Court at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for a hearing on the extradition request.

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Delays 'strengthen Patel's resolve'

February 21, 2008

DELAYS in the extradition of rogue surgeon Jayant Patel from the US have strengthened his resolve to fight the process, his friend says.
Indian-trained Dr Patel has been linked to the deaths of 17 patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in southern Queensland.

The commonwealth is in the process of extraditing him from the US on 16 charges, including three of manslaughter.

It was expected Dr Patel, who lives in Portland, Oregon, would be arrested by US marshals late last year after Australian authorities handed over their brief of evidence against him to US authorities.

However, a Senate estimates hearing in Canberra has been told the Queensland DPP's brief was rejected at least six times last year as it failed to reach a standard of proof.

The brief was finally accepted by the US Justice Department on January 30 this year, opening the way for Dr Patel's arrest.

Vijay Mehta, a surgeon based in Texas and a friend of Dr Patel, today said the former director of surgery at Bundaberg Hospital would fight the extradition.

“Initially, when all this tsunami of all the news and everything came, he was so disheartened he said there was nothing he could do,â€

Judge rules Dr. Patel will have to pay for his own lawyer


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Story Published: Mar 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM PDT

Story Updated: Mar 28, 2008 at 6:24 PM PDT
By Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A judge ruled that a surgeon charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients in Australia will have to hire his own lawyer.

Dr. Jayant Patel told a federal judge March 11 he could not afford an attorney to defend him against an extradition request by Australia.

The federal public defender appointed to represent Patel asked to be removed from the case, telling U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Hubel her office determined that Patel could afford an attorney.

Hubel ruled Friday that Patel has the money to hire representation, writing that the doctor has "substantial assets" in various investment accounts.

Patel practiced surgery in Australia from 2003 to 2005 after his Oregon medical license was severely restricted. The accusations stem from his role in the deaths of patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in the state of Queensland.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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