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Here's an interesting story from Maine--it seems that a neurosurgeon with a serious malpractice claim pending in New York applied for and was given privileges to practice in Maine.
The neurosurgeon was then found liable in a medical malpractice suit
for a surgical procedure which left a man in a wheelchair prior to the doctor
coming to Maine.
Dr. Victor Ho has agreed to a payment of $1.9 million under a settlement and
has no plans of appealing the New
York jury’s verdict. Ho was a doctor at the New York Methodist
Hospital in Brooklyn, New York
in 2000 when the botched spinal surgery took place. In 2005 he came to Maine while on probation in New York.
Ho is a member of New England Neurosurgery in Lewiston
and also has full privileges at St. Mary’s Regional
Medical Center
and limited privileges at Central
Maine Medical
Center.
According to Randal Manning of the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine, the
board examined the application of Ho carefully and interviewed him. Manning
said there was no reason he should be denied a Maine
license because of being found guilty of simple negligence, not gross
negligence, in New York.
I agree with the Board. It is a pattern of malpractice, not one incident, that medical boards need to look at and clamp down on. Anyone can make a mistake once and that is no reason to be deprived of your livelihood.