24 Facts About Jayant Patel

Jayant Patel was born in Jamnagar in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Jayant Patel then moved to the United States where he received further surgical training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine as a surgical intern and a resident in surgery.

In 1984 in Buffalo, New York, health officials cited Jayant Patel for failing to examine patients before surgery.

Jayant Patel was fined US$5,000 and was placed on three years' clinical probation.

In 1989, Jayant Patel moved to the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Portland, Oregon.

In 2003, Jayant Patel moved to the position of Director of Surgery at the Bundaberg Base Hospital, where he was employed by Queensland Health under an "area of need" program where overseas trained doctors are employed in predominantly regional understaffed areas.

Jayant Patel was appointed despite having no specialist surgical qualifications.

Jayant Patel is linked to at least 87 deaths among the 1,202 patients he treated between 2003 and early 2005.

Jayant Patel was charged with three charges of manslaughter, five charges of causing grievous bodily harm, four of negligent acts causing harm and eight charges of fraud.

Jayant Patel was extradited to Australia on July 21,2008.

The report recommended, among other things, that Jayant Patel be charged with murder or manslaughter in respect to one patient, with causing "a negligent act causing harm" to another patient, that he be charged with fraud in relation to his registration at the Medical Board of Queensland to practise medicine and that extradition proceedings should begin.

Nurses, local Queensland Health administrators and former patients of Jayant Patel were all expected to give evidence.

An independent surgeon, Peter Woodruff, who was asked by Justice Davies to examine Jayant Patel's work believes that Jayant Patel negligently caused 13 deaths, and serious complications suffered by at least 31 others.

Jayant Patel was arrested in Portland, Oregon, on March 11,2008, by FBI agents.

Jayant Patel appeared in court that day with a court-appointed attorney, telling Federal Magistrate Dennis Hubel that he was unable to afford a lawyer, after incurring significant pre-trial legal fees.

Jayant Patel was taken immediately to the Brisbane watch-house and was granted bail by the Roma Street Magistrates Court the same day.

Jayant Patel was tried in the Queensland Supreme Court for the unlawful killing of three patients and grievous bodily harm to a fourth.

On June 29,2010, Jayant Patel was found guilty of all four charges.

Jayant Patel appealed his conviction and sentence to the Court of Appeal and the prosecution appealed sentence.

Jayant Patel then appealed the Court of Appeal's decision to the High Court of Australia and was granted special leave to appeal.

Jayant Patel argued that by the time prosecutors admitted, 43 days into the trial, that they could not prove Jayant Patel was guilty of incompetence, the jury had already heard testimony and evidence about his unusual behavior.

The remaining manslaughter and grievous bodily harm charges were later dropped in exchange for Jayant Patel pleading guilty to two counts related to him dishonestly gaining registration and two counts related to dishonestly gaining employment in Queensland.

Jayant Patel was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for those fraud charges.

The tribunal upheld the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency's contentions that Jayant Patel deceived authorities into granting him a medical licence, concealed matters related to his fitness to be a doctor, and performed surgeries that he knew he could not competently perform.