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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The health minister of Australia's Queensland state quit Friday amid a scandal over a surgeon dubbed "Dr. Death" who is blamed for the deaths of at least eight of his patients.
The state's political leader, Premier Peter Beattie, said Gordon Nuttall would leave his post next week as the first step in a series of statewide health reforms.
Nuttall has come under fire throughout an inquiry examining how Dr. Jayant Patel was allowed to practice medicine in Queensland despite having being cited for negligence by medical boards in Oregon and New York.
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