A surgeon who carried out a benign prostate intervention described as “butchery”, as a result of which the patient died, has been indicted.
The intervention had been described by witnesses as a “butcher’s shop”. The Bourges surgeon, whose patient died in January during benign prostate surgery, was indicted Tuesday evening for “manslaughter by clumsiness, recklessness, inattention, negligence or breach of an obligation of safety or caution ”.
The 59-year-old urologist had operated on the prostate Henry Latour on January 14 at Bourges hospital. The 60-year-old patient died in the operating room during this operation following a major hemorrhage.
“Complex” file
The surgeon was placed under judicial control, with a ban on performing any surgical activity. At the end of June, the Order of Physicians of the Center region had already banned him from practicing until October 26.
The public prosecutor of Bourges described the file as “complex”. The surgeon “considers not to be responsible” for the death, he noted. “He provided explanations which will be submitted to a judicial expert by the investigating judge”, announced the magistrate, quoted by AFP.
Manslaughter by clumsiness, recklessness, inattention, negligence or breach of an obligation of safety or prudence is punishable by a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a fine of 40,000 euros.
“Restless, angry”
On the day of the operation, the surgeon entered the unit “agitated, angry”. He had performed the operation to remove a prostate nodule by performing “violent” gestures, which ended up piercing the patient’s bladder, according to the anesthesiologist’s report, with “appalling” blood loss.
The anesthesiologist and members of the medical team met after the operation and considered that “this operation was a real butchery unworthy of any operating theater”, it is written in the report.
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