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The Best American Crime Writing 2006His patients and colleagues found him friendly, charismatic, and very persuasive, particularly when talking a patient into an expensive surgery. In the words of one patient, he "could talk a monkey out of his last peanut." He had a way of saying just the right things. According to Margaret Pieske, a former patient, Scheffey once held an X-ray up to the window, saying, "We'll use God's light." "I immediately liked him," she said, "because I thought he believed in God." Still, the hospitals where he worked soon started to notice his odd work habits. At San Jacinto Methodist, for example, he repeatedly canceled scheduled surgeries. He also failed to keep appointments with patients or keep accurate medical charts. Internal hospital memos from as early as 1983 show that the medical staff was worried that Scheffey's erratic behavior might be the result of drug use. And he was not always the well-mannered and charming young doctor. In one nurse's report from 1984, he was described as "very ugly and sarcastic toward me." The nurse added that "his speech was very slurred and irrational." Even more disturbing, Scheffey came to be known as a surgeon whose patients lost a great deal of blood."The losses were massive," says Priscilla Walters, an attorney who has been involved in twenty lawsuits against Scheffey. "Sometimes almost all of the patient's blood had to be replaced ...» |
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