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Re: reporting on deaths following day surgery
Doc posted comments on my site, i'll repeat my reply here: I may be wrong (i'm not a surgeon), but the chain of events goes something like this: 1) any death 30 days after surgery has mandatory reporting to the coroner by the officer who pronounces the patient dead. unfortunately an autopsy is rarely done due to the lack of resources and the families' wishes 2) the surgeon's weekly MM&R "morbidity mortality & review" commitee at the hospital would have a list of deaths that occured and could choose to review the case 3) if suspicious, the State Medical Board that granted the surgeon the license to practice (usually under the office of consumer affairs) could investigate, or at least request records. Often this is done at the request of distraught family members. 4) Dr. Jacob Reider is an adviser to the NY state panel that does this, see his entry: http://www.docnotes.net/2003/10/10.html#001606 There are responses to this message:
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