NEW CHARGES FILED AGAINST SURGEON.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - State authorities attempting to revoke or suspend the license of a Lancaster neurosurgeon neurosurgeon a physician who specializes in neurosurgery. neurosurgeon A surgeon specialized in managing diseases of the brain, spine and peripheral nerves Meat & potatoes diseases Brain tumors, spinal cord disease Salary $245K + 15% bonus. have filed additional charges against the physician, accusing him of mistreating two more patients. The Medical Board of California first filed a complaint last year, accusing Dr. George Perdikis of gross negligence An indifference to, and a blatant violation of, a legal duty with respect to the rights of others. Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or and incompetence after a May 1998 operation left a young woman paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. on one side and unable to speak. In an amended complaint amended complaint n. what results when the party suing (plaintiff or petitioner) changes the complaint he/she has filed. It must be in writing, and can be done before the complaint is served on any defendant, by agreement between the parties (usually their lawyers), filed last month, the Medical Board said Perdikis performed ``excessive surgery'' on a second patient in January 1997, and performed surgery ``without a medical surgical indication'' and ``excessive'' surgery on a third patient in 1997 and 1998, records show. The accusation was filed on behalf of the Medical Board by the state Attorney General's Office. No hearing date has been set yet. ``In general, when additional allegations are made against physicians, and the board and Attorney General's Office receive more information, attorneys on both sides need more time to prepare a response,'' said Candis Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , a board spokeswoman. Calls to Perdikis' office in Lancaster and the office of Perdikis' attorney were not returned Monday. Perdikis' staff privileges were revoked or terminated by Antelope Valley Hospital in June 2001. This is the second time the Medical Board has tried to revoke or suspend Perdikis' license. The medical board charged Perdikis in August 1996 with gross negligence in the deaths of two patients and performing unnecessary surgery on two other patients at a Redding Redding, city (1990 pop. 66,462), seat of Shasta co., N central Calif., on the Sacramento River; inc. 1872. A principal tourist center for a mountain and lake region, it also has lumbering, food-processing, and diverse manufacturing. hospital in 1992. The board's complaint, however, was withdrawn in December 1997 for reasons that were not made part of the public record, medical board officials said. Perdikis was hired by Antelope Valley Hospital in April 1996. Two years later, Perdikis filed a libel and slander libel and slander, in law, types of defamation. In common law, written defamation was libel and spoken defamation was slander. Today, however, there are no such clear definitions. lawsuit complaining that two other neurosurgeons called him incompetent. Perdikis' claimed he was libeled in an e-mail message by Dr. Harvey Birsner, a former Antelope Valley Hospital director. In the e-mail, Birsner said Perdikis ``got lost'' during surgery and was unable to find a brain tumor, according to the lawsuit, which was dismissed in 1999, court records show. Perdikis was issued a medical license in February 1987, and its expiration date is November 2002, medical board records show. Perdikis graduated from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine, College of Medicine in 1985, medical board records show. |
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