LONDON —
British Prime Minister Theresa May orders a “Hillsborough” style inquiry into Britain’s tainted blood scandal.
What does Australia get? Deathly silence from our Prime Minister and Health Ministers.
Read more:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tainted-blood-scandal-inquiry-ordered-by-may-2qsbn3xhh?shareToken=702ae40b048cbe66b78fab063030472c
SYDNEY — Clinical fraud in sick system
From rogue possums to staff shortages. NSW Health allowed a dodgy doctor work for 11 years.
Excuses from NSW Ministry of Health never cease for their maladministration.
A rogue possum and a desperate scramble for foreign medical staff to fill chronic shortages and a litany of catastrophic errors have all been blamed for a major health system breakdown which allowed a fake Indian doctor too work unqualified in NSW’s hospitals for over a decade.
Con artist Shyam ACHARYA stole the identity of Dr Sarang Chitale while the pair worked as interns at Joshi Hospital in the west Indian city of Pune, before travelling to NSW and using fake documents to work in 6 hospitals across Sydney and the Central Coast for 11 years.
Read more of Miles Godfrey’s story in today’s The Daily Telegraph:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au
SYDNEY —
Dr Frank SIMONSON, another Bega Valley notorious doctor known for his medical malpractice than anything else gets a 3 month’s suspension. That is all. With a track record like his, he should have been suspended permanently and not ever allowed to practise medicine again.
Who is going to “mentor” him?
This is the same doctor who said in 2008 that criminal Dr Graeme REEVES was a ‘an asset to the Bega Valley and one of the better surgeons he had worked with’. That says it all.
30 June 2017
The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (‘the Tribunal’) has published orders and reasons for its decision in Stage 2 of proceedings following its finding of professional misconduct by Dr Frank SIMONSON on 1 June 2017.
On 29 June 2017, the Tribunal ordered that Dr Simonson’s registration be suspended for a period of three months effective from one month from this date. The Tribunal further ordered that following the expiry of the period of suspension, Dr Simonson’s registration will be subject to the following conditions:
Decision
The Tribunal observed Dr Simonson’s lack of contrition and remorse and particularly his inability to express insight into his misconduct.
Further Information
The full decision is available at NSW Caselaw
AUSTRALIA —
The medicines and health products that failed Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) testing
Nothing new here. The notorious TGA, Australia’s medicines regulator, lets the public again – routine maladministration.
Dodgy vitamins, contaminated medicines, a flu vaccine that didn’t work, ineffective hospital disinfectant and unreliable pregnancy tests are among products that have failed the national medicine regulator’s first published laboratory testing.
For the first time, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has released results of its routine product testing for quality and safety.
It admits that until now it has given the Australian public “very little” information about its testing activities.
PRODUCTS THAT FAILED THE TESTS:
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SYDNEY —
The manslaughter trial into the death of the late Mrs Kerry McAllister in May 1996 concluded today with Judge Peter Zahra deciding that the Crown didn’t prove its case beyond reasonable doubt for gross criminal negligence.
Evidence before the court indicated that because Mrs McAllister “didn’t complain enough” her treating doctor “got off”. This implies that Mrs McAllister was the cause of her own death. Mrs McAllister was ill, critically ill, from septic shock and when patients are ill they do not complain.
She died 5 days after giving birth from sepsis following multiple organ failure because antibiotics were not administered following childbirth when she had a fever. In this day and age for a new mother to die from sepsis IS criminal neglect.
Graeme REEVES, the ‘Butcher of Bega’ walks free from this crime and many others. Inadequate medical record keeping added to his freedom.
The DPP dropped 61 charges in December 2013 but not on the merits of evidence; an outrageous decision by the NSW Attorney-General and a travesty of justice for Reeves’ many other victims.
Criminal doctor Graeme Stephen REEVES previous sentence was 3 years 6 months and he served 2 years 6 months. He got out of jail early because he complained the jail health system was not up to his standards.
SYDNEY —
The psychiatrist slammed for misleading police by saying the Lindt Cafe terrorist was just “grandstanding” has been sacked.
The high profile psychiatrist, whose name is suppressed for some peculiar reason, has previously come under fire in court.
Well-known as an expert witness, the psychiatrist was previously criticized by a tribunal for preparing a report on a doctor who drugged and raped a patient based only on what the guilty doctor told him. The tribunal rejected his opinion that the doctor would not do it again as having “little weight”
READ MORE:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terror/police-sack-lindt-psychiatrist/news-story/87c211f9ee93476fafba7f93acdb9a14
SYDNEY — Dr Frank SIMONSON, found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct. In layman’s terms a dodgy doctor.
This is the Merimbula, southern New South Wales, doctor who has a track record of malpractice. He’s a mate of criminal Butcher of Bega Graeme REEVES. They conducted operations together. Yes, when Butcher Reeves was barred from practising obstetrics. Didn’t stop either of them engaging in medical fraud.
This is the doctor who let baby Elijah Slavkovic die in 2009 – a 3 month old baby who presented to Pambula Hospital, when SIMONSON couldn’t be bothered treating and caring for baby Elijah and fobbed him, with Elijah’s parents, off to Bega Hospital and a hospital runaround beyond belief.
If the HCCC had done its job in 2009, other patients may not have suffered the same fate and lived. Dr Simonson’s methods haven’t changed since the Medical Tribunal inquired into his “ways” back in September 2006. But his history went back before that.
He should be barred from practising medicine. The public needs protecting. Country people have been lumbered with him for more than a decade and nothing’s changed.
READ MORE:
https://www.hccc.nsw.gov.au/Publications/Media-releases/2017/Dr-Frank-Simonson—Unsatisfactory-professional-conduct
ONTARIO, CANADA — 3 June 2017
A former nurse has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the deaths of eight nursing home residents in one of the worst serial-killer cases in Canadian history.
Elizabeth WETTLAUFER also pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
The 49-year-old, who appeared in a Woodstock, Ontario, courtroom, admitted to killing eight seniors and hurting six others.
Wettlaufer acknowledged under questioning from the judge that she injected all 14 with insulin for no medical reason.
All the incidents allegedly occurred between 2007 and 2014 in three Ontario long-term care facilities where Wettlaufer worked as a registered nurse.
SYDNEY
State Coroner of New South Wales his Hon Michael Barnes, handed down his Finding into the 2014 Lindt Cafe siege in Martin Place, Sydney.
Summing up medical advice: Psychiatrist’s role was suboptimal.
MEAG COMMENT: Police didn’t shoot the terrorist because the consultant doctor said he wasn’t dangerous. Another warped medical opinion believed. The psychiatrist provided erroneous advice which didn’t help the process.
AUSTRALIA — -Another day, another medical botch-up.
More than 200 women will give evidence to a Senate Inquiry into the “adverse effects” experienced following the insertion of transvaginal mesh implants. Senator Derryn Hinch spearheaded the inquiry, describing the medical intervention as one of the worst mass cases of medical negligence since doctors widely prescribed thalidomide to cure morning sickness. Those adverse events include chronic pain, erosion of the implant, disability, loss of sexual function, constant bleeding and ongoing incontinence.
Transvaginal mesh implants were approved for use in 2005 by the Therapeutic Drugs Administration (TGA), but no clinical trials had been performed. Horrifyingly, the procedure is irreversible.
You might be wondering how thousands of women can have been told that transvaginal mesh implants (branded by Johnson & Johnson) [Remember them? Think DePuy toxic hip implants] could “fix” pelvic organ prolapse when there was barely any evidence to support the long (or even short) term efficacy. But this disgraceful, widespread medical malpractice is just one extreme example of the general dismissiveness shown towards women’s health and particularly the health of postpartum women.
Another medical botch-up by Johnson & Johnson. Another botch-up by “our TGA”. The malfeasance of Australia’s federal health department TGA never stops. Are Australian women medical guinea pigs, or what?
LADIES! A reminder to lodge your submission to the Australian Senate BEFORE 31 May 2017.
