Qld: Patel warned to slow patient's internal bleeding: court

AAP General News (Australia)
02-24-2009
Qld: Patel warned to slow patient's internal bleeding: court

By Christine Flatley

BRISBANE, Feb 24 AAP - Jayant Patel ignored a junior doctor's suggestion of a way to
buy time to find internal bleeding in a surgical patient who later died, a court has been
told.

Former Bundaberg Base Hospital junior surgeon Dr Sanjeeva Kariyawasam told the Brisbane
Magistrates Court on Tuesday he advised Patel to pack surgical wadding into the chest
of Gerry Kemps during an emergency operation in December 2004.

He said Patel had re-opened Mr Kemps in an attempt to stop internal bleeding from …