A man went in for kidney removal. That’s not what a Florida doctor took out, state says
An Orlando urologist who thought he removed a patient’s kidney as planned actually had left the kidney in place, a Florida Department of Health administrative complaint said.
Dr. Zamip Patel had taken out an inflamed cyst instead, the complaint said.
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An administrative complaint starts the discipline process, which can end in no action or punitive action by the State of Florida Board of Medicine. Patel’s online Department of Health profile shows no previous disciplinary action. The American Board of Urology website says Patel’s board certified until Feb. 28, 2033.
Patel didn’t answer an email sent to the address on his online Department of Health profile and declined to comment when a Miami Herald reporter called his office.
The complaint says Patel was supposed to remove Patient M.B.’s right kidney on June 16, 2021. He removed “a significant mass, which was sent to pathology.”
The pathology report from June 18, 2021, said Patel removed a “hemorrhagic and inflamed cyst, not the intended kidney.”
But it was two months later, the complaint says, that M.B. showed up at Advent Health Orlando complaining of pain and a CT scan showed the right kidney was still where it shouldn’t have been.
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This story was originally published February 28, 2023 at 11:44 AM.
