Talk:Jayant Patel/Archive 1

Untitled
Shouldn't the "Current Affairs" template be at the top of the article? --203.59.185.88 11:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Seems a little silly to have "Davies Inquiry" as a link on this page when it re-directs back to the same page... --203.45.115.94 12:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed wikilink, but keep redirect. &mdash;Viriditas | Talk 12:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Commissioner Davies
Is it correct to refer to Geoffrey Davies as 'Justice Davies'?

He wasn't sitting as a judge. He signed his report as 'Hon Geoffrey Davies AO'. The Australian Guide to Legal Citation says he should be Justice Davies, but this isn't a legal essay. - Richardcavell 13:17, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Update
Just heard on the local tv news that Patel is now missing from his Portland home, but there's nothing about it on the websites I checked; so I can't add it to the article. The latest piece of news is from the KGW site stating that Patel's US attorney no longer represents him. -- llywrch 02:27, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Rating
I downgraded it to Start as the tone of the article is nowhere near what would be expected per WP:WIAGA - some of it reads like journalism. Orderinchaos 01:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Source

 * This article, Ex-surgeon's troubled career leads to jail cell provides a good overview up to yesterday. This should help with updating the article. Dance With The Devil (talk) 04:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Category:People deported from the United States
I have never read this allegation elsewhere, and it is not reflected in the text of the article. He has been extradited to Australia and remains a US citizen. MartinSFSA (talk) 02:57, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced, Contentious Material
This article has a lot of potentially defamatory material about the subject that is unsourced. This is a violation of Biographies of Living Persons: [.

In addition, the tone of this article is not a NPOV. Consider: "His unprofessional behaviour continued," as statement in the first person. I could not remove the contentious and unsourced material without almost completely demolishing the article, so am raising this in on the BLP noticeboard for urgent attention. Savlonn (talk) 18:31, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

This article states alot of "so-called" facts, yet few of them are sourced. I recomend that this entire article be deleted and rewritten, with only items that can be sourced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.140.22.4 (talk) 05:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

>Absolutely agree with above. Facts have been intertwined with heresay and really this article should have been pulled whilst Patel was/is being tried. The role of the two Queensland Health Officials >should also be written up - Leck and Keating. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bribieisland (talk • contribs) 19:16, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Trial Verdict
June 29th 2010, Patel found guilty on 3 counts of manslaughter, 1 count GBH. Apparently it's standard procedure that the verdict will be appealed Ern Malleyscrub (talk) 10:03, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Aftermath
I've trimmed back the section called "aftermath". The original was:


 * In a TV documentary on the case aired by the CNN in November 2010 as part of its “World’s Untold Stories” series and entitled “They Called Him ‘Dr. Death’” (http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/11/02/wus.dr.death.bk.c.cnn?iref=allsearch), several of Patel’s medical co-workers in Australia testified to having repeatedly blown a whistle on him only to be ignored by medical superiors and other authorities, a fact that makes such third parties co-conspirators in Patel’s murderous activities, as does the fact that Patel’s previous trails of destruction which he left behind during his medical practice in the United States went undiscovered due to bureaucratic negligence involved in his hiring in Australia although his earlier (catastrophic) record as a medical practitioner in the states of Oregon and New York was public and easily accessible. The scandalous details of his malpractice uncovered in the documentary include, alongside the medically gigantic errors, also seemingly small but critically important items like his refusal to wash hands, a routine necessary to prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient in a hospital setting. What finally transpires of Patel the man from the half-hour-long film is his hardened self-assurance against all odds, a self-seeker unrepentant even in the face of a conviction, indifferent to the misery he had so widely sown, and completely unmindful of the standards of the community around him.

I have three problems with this. The first is that it would need to be extensively reworded - lines such as "medically gigantic errors" don't meet the WP:NPOV requirements, as they don't come across as a neutral retelling of the events. The second is that much of this appears to be conjecture: for example, the claim that the "third parties co-conspirators in Patel’s murderous activities" was not explicitly stated in the source, and seems to be an interpretation of the material presented, as dose the last sentence. And the third is that much of this is covered in the article as it stands: for example, CNN did not uncover the fact that Patel refused to wash his hands, and this is already covered in "Career". But the main problem is that this piece reads as if it is about the documentary, when the article is about Patel - I'd be more inclined to use the documentary as a source within the article, rather than discuss it in its own right. - Bilby (talk) 15:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)