An Indian American weight loss surgeon Dr Ramesh Srungaram, who has been sued 22 times for alleged medical malpractice, has shut his practice, a media report said.Srungaram, 52, who worked at several hospitals in recent years, in spite of the lawsuits and complaints against him, quit from the Houston Community Hospital on March 19.According to the report, two years ago at Highland Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, four patients were rushed to University Medical Center in critical condition over two days, after Srungaram performed gastric bypass surgery. One of the four died and Srungaram resigned.However, Dr Srungaram was accepted a month later by Houston Community Hospital where one of his patients, Chris Berwick, died several months after undergoing laparoscopic bypass surgery, the Houston Chronicle said. It was there that another patient Donna Collins died last year 11 days after Srungaram performed bypass surgery on her. Collins’ family brought a medical malpractice suit against Srungaram — one of 22 filed against him — only to discover that neither the doctor, nor the hospital had insurance at the time. —(PTI)
