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A Florida surgeon who cut out a woman\u2019s kidney after mistaking it for a tumor, is to pay a fine of $3,000 and undergo extra training on preoperative patient evaluation. He hadn\u2019t properly read medical records before the operation.<\/p>\n
Ramon Vazquez made the blunder during a surgical procedure at the Wellington Regional Medical Center in April 2016. The man was tasked with cutting female patient Maureen Pacheco open so that two other surgeons could perform a back operation on her.<\/p>\n
But he noticed an abnormality, which he himself hastily diagnosed as \u201cgynecological malignancy, lymphoma and\/or other metastatic disease,\u201d<\/em> an administrative complaint by the Florida Department of Health reads<\/a>. Vazquez decided to act on the alleged tumor without informing the patient. As result, the pelvic mass he discovered \u201cwas clipped, transected and removed in its entirety.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n But a pathologist at the hospital later made a shocking revelation the removed mass actually \u201cwas an intact pelvic kidney<\/strong>.\u201d<\/em> It turned out that patient Pacheco had a kidney not ascending into her abdomen. Vazquez would\u2019ve known about this if he\u2019d reviewed the patient\u2019s medical records before rushing to use his scalpel, but he neglected to do so.<\/p>\n The Florida Department of Health ruled that the surgeon\u2019s diagnosis was not related to Pacheco\u2019s medical condition and that removing her healthy kidney was therefore \u201ca medically unnecessary procedure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The woman sued two primary doctors in her operation and received $250,000 from each of them as part of a settlement reached last year. Vazquez was also sued for malpractice and settled the case for a nominal amount, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n There are usually two kidneys in a human body and being left with one such organ is no obstacle to leading a healthy life. But Pacheco\u2019s legal team insisted that Vazquez\u2019s mistake made their client more susceptible to chronic kidney disease and renal failure.<\/p>\n The Florida Board of Medicine issued its final order<\/a> on the case in late 2018, but it was only obtained by the media this week. It ruled that Vazquez must pay a $3,000 fine and give a one-hour lecture on wrong-site surgery to his fellow hospital staff. The surgeon would also attend courses on preoperative evaluation of surgical patients, and fork out another $4,817.90 in court costs.<\/p>\n Like this story? Share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Florida surgeon who cut out a woman\u2019s kidney after mistaking it for a tumor, is to pay a fine of $3,000 and undergo extra training on preoperative patient evaluation. He hadn\u2019t properly read medical records before the operation. Ramon Vazquez made the blunder during a surgical procedure at the Wellington Regional Medical Center in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":392610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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