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 BUNDABERG, Australia (AP) - Less than a month after she began working with Dr. Jayant Patel, renal nurse Lindsay Druce became alarmed when she noticed a 100 percent complication rate in the kidney patients he operated on, she told an inquiry Tuesday.
Druce returned from maternity leave in November 2003 and began working with Patel, a surgeon who has since been linked to the deaths of 87 patients over the two years he worked at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in eastern Australia.
Patel is now the subject of a government probe investigating why he was allowed to practice freely in Australia despite a 20-year history of botched operations.
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