We Are Not Your Guinea Pigs
Why hospitals and surgery centers need to videotape each procedure and/or surgery.
In 2008 I met Atiq Durrani a spinal surgeon in Cincinnati he ended up performing 5 spine surgeries on me during the time I had him as my doctor, which was from 2008-2013. In August 2013, Durrani was arrested by the FEDS and was indicted on medicare and prescription fraud, performing unnecessary surgeries, and allowing another doctor to perform surgeries under his name. Durrani then fled the country in December back to Lahore, Pakistan where he currently is calling himself a U.S. medical diplomat and performing surgeries there.
After he fled, I hired my attorney Eric Deters, who had many other patients like myself. I found out what he did in those surgeries after I hired Eric Deters. In my surgeries Durrani used non-FDA regulated stem cell growth proteins called BMP-2 and Puregen. Bmp-2 was allowed only in the lumbar spine and he used this Bmp-2 in my lumbar spine surgeries and in one of my cervical spine surgeries which was forbidden by the FDA due to side effects many patients had. I had those side effects of having issues swallowing and I had a cancer scare in 2012. In July 2012 Durrani had me scheduled for another surgery but this time on my thoracic spine, I became pregnant and he told me that my spine would not be able to hold the extra weight and stress that a baby would bring and to have an abortion. Which I did. I later found out that the abortion was not necessary and I would have been perfectly fine to have that child.
My surgeries Durrani performed was S1-L5 on December 3, 2008, C5-C6 February 10, 2010, L3-L4 on September 24, 2010, C4-C5 and C6-C7 on February 22, 2012, and C1-C2 on April 22, 2013. I still to this day do not know if Durrani had performed my surgeries or if someone else did. This is why I am requesting that the Congress create and pass a bill to make EVERY procedure and/or surgery videotaped by the hospitals or surgery centers. This helps both parties. It helps the hospitals and surgery centers with unnecessary malpractice claims and it helps the patient with their own healthcare knowledge and if God forbid there was an issue then they have it on tape for their own personal use.
There are about 85,000 malpractice cases filed annually. And 225,000 patients die from malpractice each year. Wouldn't it be nice to lower these numbers and provide accountability for the doctors and the patients? Why is it ok that we can be their guinea pigs? And without our knowledge too.
After he fled, I hired my attorney Eric Deters, who had many other patients like myself. I found out what he did in those surgeries after I hired Eric Deters. In my surgeries Durrani used non-FDA regulated stem cell growth proteins called BMP-2 and Puregen. Bmp-2 was allowed only in the lumbar spine and he used this Bmp-2 in my lumbar spine surgeries and in one of my cervical spine surgeries which was forbidden by the FDA due to side effects many patients had. I had those side effects of having issues swallowing and I had a cancer scare in 2012. In July 2012 Durrani had me scheduled for another surgery but this time on my thoracic spine, I became pregnant and he told me that my spine would not be able to hold the extra weight and stress that a baby would bring and to have an abortion. Which I did. I later found out that the abortion was not necessary and I would have been perfectly fine to have that child.
My surgeries Durrani performed was S1-L5 on December 3, 2008, C5-C6 February 10, 2010, L3-L4 on September 24, 2010, C4-C5 and C6-C7 on February 22, 2012, and C1-C2 on April 22, 2013. I still to this day do not know if Durrani had performed my surgeries or if someone else did. This is why I am requesting that the Congress create and pass a bill to make EVERY procedure and/or surgery videotaped by the hospitals or surgery centers. This helps both parties. It helps the hospitals and surgery centers with unnecessary malpractice claims and it helps the patient with their own healthcare knowledge and if God forbid there was an issue then they have it on tape for their own personal use.
There are about 85,000 malpractice cases filed annually. And 225,000 patients die from malpractice each year. Wouldn't it be nice to lower these numbers and provide accountability for the doctors and the patients? Why is it ok that we can be their guinea pigs? And without our knowledge too.
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