4 DEATHS OCCURE DURING COMETIC PROCEDURES IN DR. OFFICE
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 12:03:45 -0700
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DURGAA@aol.com (by way of ilena rose)To: Recipient List Suppressed:;
Ilena, please post - from The Sun Sentinel News, Fort Lauderdale, 8/5/00
"Fed up with patients dying in doctor's surgery offices, the Florida Board of Medicine on Friday banned operations using general anesthesia for 3 months, despite protests from medical groups.
5 office surgery deaths since April are too many to write off to the normal risks of surgery, medical boards said.
4 of the deaths occurred during cosmetic procedures, 2 due to anesthesia. The ban gives the medical board 3 months to study the problem. We have to do something said Dr. Raghavendra Vijayanagar, a Tampa surgeon. "This is cometic surgery, elective surgery, these patients should come out more beautiful, not the way they are coming out."
I say it is about time!!!!!!!!! Audrey
