I am still here Debra and have just had a really busy year. This coming week we are hosting Rob Messenger, Member of Parliament from Queensland, Australia. Rob will be speaking on the Jayant Patel matter. I hope by Tuesday that Patel is in custody in Queensland. I believe that if there is to be any justice brought for his actions that it will be conducted in Queensland. In the U.S. his behavior is openly condoned and here the most he will get is a sullied name. The web promo is at:
http://www.kaiserpapers.info/healthcarewarriors.html
and my web blog (which I am still pretty new at making) is at:
http://kaiserpapersblog.blogspot.com/
I also would like to mention that David Russell, from Bundaberg who is on this list has been of invaluable assistance in putting this program together for the world. We are going to have an opportunity to hear the entire story as it actually happened instead of the bits and pieces that the press has brought out to date.
I am also extremely grateful for the Queensland Parliament in realizing that it is just as important to investigate the source that would condone such behavior. Patel did it for money and money only. Other people profited off of his actions and that is why his behavior was condoned. Operations without anesthesia to save on the cost of the anesthesiologist are cruel. Medical experiments on terminal patients without their consent is evil and believe it or not he actually did worse than that. Pulling the tubes on government funded patients to make room for cash paying customers is really twisted thinking.
Administrators that knowingly allow such behavior to get a bonus at the end of the year for coming in under budget are evil.
I believe that the physicians in the United States, including the State of New York and Kaiser Permanente in Oregon who all wrote glowing letters of recommendation for this man while knowing full well what he had already done here should also be held accountable and in a manner that is far more serious than a letter of reprimand that will be hidden in a file out of public sight.
Cullen and Patel are similar cases in the fact that it was administrators and specific individuals that because of their own greed to personally profit off of the suffering of the ill allowed this to happen. There are hundreds of Cullen's and Patel's running around in this world today and getting away with it for the same reasons. Both individuals are egoistic - what I call Shah mentality. They simply believe that they are right in their actions and everyone else can suffer with their decisions. They are so focused (again Dennis taught us this) on their own actions that they are very easily taken advantage of by unethical individuals that steer them in the direction they want.
Australia is examining and actually modifying their system to prevent this from happening again. They are looking at the true source of the problem. Patel was not the first to be caught just the one that got the press.
The United States could care less if this happens or not here and so Patel's actions here are considered within the norm by the applicable boards. They simply don't want all the other's working with Patel type methods examined. My statement regarding the condonation by the U.S. is verifiable and well documented. The reasons of course are again for financial gain.
Coming in under budget is financially rewarding for administrators. In the U.S. killing off the expensive to treat and long term patient is considered one less government funded patient to have to pay for by CMS and closed system HMO's. The system is good only for quick fixes and those that do not drain the financial resources. Everyone else should consider other means of survival for long term or expensive to treat conditions rather than blindly trusting the currently intact systems.
Patel's licenses were only removed in the States after Queensland made his actions public. If Patel is not brought to justice and permanently stopped now, I pity the next country that he sets up shop in.
Rob Messenger when I last spoke with him wanted a reward put out for the return of Patel. I agree that this is probably the most productive way to get him back to Queensland. Any other conventional legal method is only going to drag this matter out forever. Patel knows full well that the legal system here will protect him. Eventually the cost to the taxpayers for the extra protection this man will need in this country is also going to be counterproductive and that in itself is a crime. There is no question that this man committed these acts. That is well documented in two states and two countries. It has been proven in the U.S. and ruled by the two involved boards. If Patel fights the extradition process in this country and we openly allow harboring a wanted criminal we will be inadvertently telling the world we condone such behavior and that does not say much in the way of good about this country.
I encourage all members of the public to call in during this program. I do not yet know the overseas call in numbers but I do know that in the U.S. on the H2H website the toll free lines are listed.

- Vickie




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