Medically Incompetent Doctors Flee to Texas
Scary. Very scary. From KRIS Corpus Christi and Texas Watch : Corpus Christi neurosurgeon Stefan Konasiewicz is on trial in Minnesota this week for medical malpractice. Konasiewicz left a trail of medical incompetence in Minnesota that has resulted in nine medical malpractice lawsuits , some involving patient deaths, as well as a public reprimand by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice . Rather than face the music in Minnesota Konasiewicz fled to Texas where lax oversight and a broken legal system allow bad doctors to keep seeing patients, turning our state into a safe haven for dangerous doctors like Konasiewicz. The Texas Medical Board, which is tasked with policing the medical profession, isn’t required to disclose – or even look into – cases of medical malpractice when a doctor moves from another state. So, patients have no way of knowing what their physician’s track record is . On top of that, if you are injured (or worse), the law is structured such tha