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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - An Indian-trained surgeon linked by health officials to the deaths of at least 87 patients in Australia over two years should be charged with murder, a government inquiry recommended Friday.
Jayant Patel, an Indian-born U.S. citizen, was hired in Australia in 2003 despite having been cited for negligence in Oregon and in New York, where he was forced to surrender his license in 2001.
The Commission of Inquiry investigating Patel's practice at the Bundaberg Base Hospital recommended in an interim report Friday that he be charged with murder in the death of James Edward Phillips, who died five days after Patel surgically removed part of his esophagus.
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