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Negligent doctors find jobs in NY state prisons

Dear New Yorkers,

One doctor accidentally chopped off part of a newborn’s left index finger during a delivery. He also attacked two nurses who vividly described how he choked them while in a rage.

Another doctor drained the wrong side of a patient’s chest while attempting to remove a mass of fluid and altered a medical record afterwards.

A third, a cardio-vascular and thoracic surgeon, was charged by New York State’s Office of Medical Conduct with botching 10 surgeries in four years — cutting into a patient’s chest to treat an inoperable lesion and needlessly carrying out extensive, medically inappropriate procedures.

Common to all the doctors is one of their most recent places of employment: the New York state prison system. 

In 2023, according to THE CITY’s analysis of two public databases that track medical discipline, only 0.5% of New York’s doctors overall were disciplined for failing to meet basic medical standards. But inside the prison system, our analysis found the rate to be at least 20 times higher.  

“The truth is the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is desperate to hire doctors,” said Amy Agnew, a lawyer who filed an ongoing class action suit on behalf of approximately 3,000 inmates. “They can’t attract them. So they take what they can get. And what they can get is often what other people don’t want.” 

Read our investigation on the doctors sanctioned for medical misconduct, negligence, incompetence and even felonies that later found work treating incarcerated patients.

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