Texas doctor blows whistle on improper care, poorly supervised surgeries
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, June 26, 2007
A former department chair at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas is claiming he was demoted and stripped of an endowed position after raising concerns about patients receiving improper care at its teaching facility--Parkland Memorial Hospital--the Dallas Morning News reports.
Larry Gentilello, former head of the Division of Burn, Trauma and Critical Care, is suing the the academic medical center under the Texas whistleblower act, alleging that trauma residents at Parkland Memorial Hospital have been performing surgery without proper supervision on the poor and uninsured patients typically seen at the teaching facility.
According to the lawsuit, Gentilello "observed that the patients at Parkland were being treated by residents with no attending physicians present and were undergoing surgical procedures with no attending physicians in the operating room during critical phases of surgery," the lawsuit states.
Parkland is the primary training site of residents affiliated with the UT Southwestern Medical School. Parkland officials declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, according to the News' report.
Read more from the Dallas Morning News here.
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