$15M settlement reached after doctors allegedly left heart surgeries to perform other operations 

Being able to pay out without admitting guilt should be illegal for companies.

So they made $150 million and got fined $15 million. I guess it was worth it then. I’m sure they would do it again. It’s makes a lot of profit for them.

YHANK YOU to the whistleblower!! Those surgeons should be in jail!

We pay outrageous amounts for healthcare, yet this is the "healthcare" we get. This shit needs to change now.

So let me get this straight. As long as you’re rich, no one goes to jail. Just fines

These crooked surgeons need to lose their licenses, get locked up, and sued. This shouldn't be swept under the rug and should not have been settled behind the scenes. These doctors are always going against their oath to do no harm for the sake of their own greed, and need to be held accountable when they get caught because it's the rest of us who suffer under their negligence and malpractices.

Why do those doctors still have their license?????

Baylor St. Luke’s Hospital. Stay away from this place.

When greed entered the healthcare system, ethics and do no harm exited. 😒

Thank God for honest people.

The patients should be awarded 15 million each

If the US government was indeed serious about fighting fraud and abuse in the system... then these surgeons, as well as all of the medical execs involved... should have their licenses revoked and face criminal charges!!!

My issue with this story is that it took YEARS to develop the case. That means, during that time patients lives were at risk. I hope those families were compensated as well!

This is unconscionable and horrifying. How could they even think about doing something so horrific?

And let’s fire all the hospital CEO’s who undoubtedly pushed the surgeons to overwork “or else”

They don’t give two nickels about patients it’s all about the dollar

Do not settle, charge and jail them and fine the crap out the hospital.

The heart doctors working on patients' hearts who are heartless. Same goes to the hospital who allowed this to happen. Thank you whistle blower.

15 million to make lawsuit go away.... we're talking about human lives. Shameful.

I worked with one of the named surgeons in the past, and this really surprises me. I never saw anything less than amazing care and unwavering concern for his patients.

The structure of the system is the problem. The institutions need to be fined the 150 million dollars they made as well as taking the licenses of those particular doctors.

The Hospital admits no guilt. "These are just allegations." But here's 15 MILLON DOLLARS, we're going to pay out BECAUSE.... we've done nothing wrong. Okay cool.... So can I have like 100K too? Since they're just handing out money for No Reason! Criminals.

Only 15 million,shows how much they earn being worthless

150 million revenue. Paying 15 million settlement. Thats just the price of business. Not too shabby.

Makes me wonder during my surgeries was my surgeon really in the operating suite? Is this why I ended up with complications? Sad that the patient never really has a clue once they’re sedated…

This has been happening for years across the US. I remember when I was a surg tech and other surgeons would peek their heads in our OR and claim it as assisting...

This happens much more often than most people believe. Senior surgeons hop from surgery to surgery and routinely have surgical fellows and even residents do most, if not all, of a surgery because of overly aggressive surgical scheduling. And it's certainly not limited to cardiothoracic surgeries, it's across ALL surgical specialties.

Good thing the whistle blower didn't work for Boeing

This won't change anything whatsoever. 15 mill is nothing to hospitals.

Imagine waking up and finding out that your literal SURGEON walked out in the middle of YOUR SURGERY That's like a bus driver going "oh, that's my place, you guys can handle it from here" and jumping out of the moving bus 😂

Corrupt docs made 2 million while hospital made 150 off of these three?! How can we expect hospitals not to be corrupt.

Terrible. I wouldn't trust this hospital and i would investigate any deaths during that time frame. The whistle blower deserves that settlement for exposing such dangerous practices. Especially dangers of those extents.

Greed is going to kill us all. 😡

Hospital board members need to realize MONEY IS DISPOSABLE PEOPLE ARE NOT They need to start prioritizing healthy outcomes again instead of monetary gain

The hospital earned $150 million from from these cases and only have to pay out $!5 million. This is just a cost of doing business for them, not a deterrent from doing the same in the future.

👏👏👏expose it all. All over America this needs to take place just like coding for billing of services. It happens and patients suffer.

so the doctors get off completely baylor pays a small fine and not much changes

OMG, I wondered how many patients who suffered fatality because of these negligence.

This happens at every single hospital I've ever worked at....it is very rare for an attending physician to stay in a case from start to finish. They go between multiple rooms and cases while residents are working in each..

That is why we cannot make key services to be run by for-profit organizations only. Healthcare, education and housing must have a portion supported by public fund to help the people with lesser means, and also to stop these behaviors.

Excellent reporting. These kinds of things are more common than it seeems, and rarely exposed.

This happens more often than people know. When you have surgery make sure you ask if there will be students or residents present and assisting.

I saw this happen elsewhere. Senior resident surgical physicians who are at the end of their training, made to perform surgeries while the attending surgeon is managing multiple OR rooms. The impression I got is that this was VERY common, and a very old approach to surgical teaching programs going back centuries. When I observed it, it was also pretty clear that the attending surgeon hated it and it seemed forced on them by the hospital. I’ve also seen surgeons get fired for not doing enough surgeries. It’s a real thing.

As a medical student, there is a lot of pressure from admin on doctors to perform and will pressure the use of residents/ jr. Doctors who get paid 60,000 dollars to do the max. In this case, it was the surgeon and the hospital who benefited

That deserves criminal charges

Not surprised - the residents do all the work, the attendings just submit the billing codes

Give him a trophy and the money. How dare those so called doctors take chances with the lives of their patients. They should loose their licenses.

I'm glad that these 2 physicians lost their medical license in Texas, however they should be banned from practicing in the USA 🇺🇸 period!!! Please protect the whistle blowers 🙏❗️👍

Good for the professor/doctor for doing the right thing. How frightening for the patients at this facility!

As a former surgical assistant this happens a lot😢

This is the second "bad press" for Baylor in a week. There's probably more to come.

If you book an appointment at a car dealership and the salesperson stacks two appointments in the same time window, you would be pissed too. but we are talking about surgeons

15 million for 150 million. this isn't going to deter much

only 15mil fine after 4 years when they "increased revenue by 150mil a year"

My wife’s a pediatrician. She’s the nicest and most caring pediatrician ever. There is a ton of pressure on her to churn through patients. The problem is that medicaid and medicare pays the hospital less per patient, so they need to make up the difference with appointment time. She has to take patients every 15 minutes, which is not normal for a primary care facility (normal is 30 minutes) She has been forced to learn how to blow through patients as fast as possible. Really it’s the patients who suffer and it’s not the doctors choice. I just want to point out, that it may not be these doctors who are at fault, it might be the hospital expecting a patient load and telling them they can find somebody else if they can’t make it work. (It could also be the doctors just trying to earn more)

That’s wild to think about. If you paid three surgeons six million total, but they brought in 130 million, just hire more surgeons and you’re still making a ton of profits…

Banner Hospital system mainly based in Phoenix, Arizona has been doing the same thing for years. How do I know? I worked there as a clinician. Hospitals that are "teaching hospitals" aka "Magnet Hospitals" attempt to trick us into thinking they are performing a noble education service. However, what they're really doing is hiring new grads, paying them less, and cutting corners to maximize profits all the while providing lower quality care for their patients. It's disgusting.

What a shame even the ones we are suppose to trust more with our lives pure greedy.

This happened to me, not with heart surgery but with leg surgery. The surgeon dipped out early in the surgery and handed it off to an intern. My lawyer found that in the more then two inches thick of documents related to my experience, from the ER to the surgery.

May God bless whistleblowers: Such Courage and Integrity. 💜

So they gained 150 million dollars from these surgeons alone and they paid 15 million pay out. Chump change for what they made from it. These surgeons made over $2mill a year each and walk away no issues? How is their medical license not being scrutinised?

All surgeries should be recorded. If not by the hospital, then patients . Try a small audio recorder in your hair. Hides quite nicely.

I knew Dr. Coselli from 35 years ago when I worked at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston. I'm really surprised to see him involved in a mess like this.

Alot of people don't know that the longer a patient stays sleep or monitored after surgery in the "recovery" they're being billed literally by the min. The hospital near me bills patients $58 dollars a minute! When you have surgery there are stages. Pre op (before surgery room) recovery area (wakeing up after surgery to be monitored by a nurse) then a phase 2 (can be in the same room as recovery or moved) obviously this is different depending on factors. Its crazy how much doctors get away with because they are under contracts instead of employee.

My mom had surgery once and later found out a different person had done the surgery. She should have sued I guess because she said her arm wasn’t right after the surgery. Not sure how she found out someone else had done the surgery.

The whistleblower should have received more than $3 million.

We pay outrageous prices for medical care compared to any other country in the world and this is the health care we get. When surgeons and hospital systems get this greedy it's time for there to be some serious continuing oversite coming from somewhere.

Surprised this made it to the news.

Make the other two have their license revoked!!!!! And don't think it's not happening at other hospitals. That's despicable!!!!!! And they all became wealthy from their lies 🤥 🤥🤥

OK, so technically they didn’t do anything wrong. Do I buy this? No, no Baylor you are guilty. We all know that this is probably just one of many hospitals doing the exact same thing.

How awful! So few people have integrity anymore! Glad someone was watching and paying attention 👀🙏 What a disgrace! The 3 doctors and the hospital! Whatever brings the money in, right?!? 😡

But they made the hospital 150 million dollars???

The epitome of FOR PROFIT hospital.

What, do they think they're DENTISTS? lol

Someone has to be honest and trustworthy

See what arrogance gets you?

Sad when greed and irresponsibility rise to this level, especially by those who swear to do no harm.

Did i miss something? Who was the benefactor of the $15m, besides the whistle-blower getting $3m?

How over worked were these doctors? Hospitals administrations equal at blame

they should investigate the C-suite executives pushing for higher volume and metrics and pressuring physicians and enticing them incentives

The hospital:whoever does the most surgeries today gets a pizza party!!! Them: say less. lol

Patients should sue.

Doesn't surprise me. Doctors don't have a moral compass anymore.

ARE THESE DOCTORS STILL PRACTICING?? WHY!?

Baylor is lying. They know.

Wow. My mom was just discharged from this hospital last week. The care was horrific. She was transferred from our local hospital to this one via ambulance and left in the waiting room knowing she needed assistance and being told she already had a room. She went hours without a nurse coming in to see her when she finally got a room and was vomiting without being able to get up. Finally he comes in and was more concerned about a horror movie playing on her tv (that was already on) that was freaking him out rather than getting her care. He emptied out her patient bag and told her to throw up in there and disappeared again. Worst experience ever.

Baylor: We paid out $15M but this doesn't mean we're guilty The Public: LOL sure bro

Good lord - There needs to be MORE observation of these Surgeons!!! All of this should be monitored more in EVERY MEDICAL FACILITY!!!

The doctor just earned his retirement from blowing a damn whistle 😂😂

Are there cameras in operating room? We got them for red lights, school busses- maybe time to record operations.

They made $300 million (allowed to keep it), no guilt admitted, docs still have license...not a fair outcome!

A doctor with honor wow brave doctor...

Vid says Baylor made $150 million in revenue from those three questionable surgeons. The other two institutions likely also made a boatload of money. If the settlement is just $15 million, how is this an effective punishment? It looks like little more than a slap on the wrist if they are allowed get such high revenue for a relative small cost.

So much for looking up to doctors!!!!

My daughter dated a doctor for three months. He was so chivalrous and nice looking and was just starting his internship. One evening she was at his apartment, cooking dinner, and he went in to take a shower . His phone was laying on the counter. He never tried to hide it . A text from a friend and fellow doctor came in and she could read it on the phone. It said “That old bitty is still driving me nuts. Should I let her live or not?” That was the end of the doctor .She said mom, all I could think of was someday, him, and his friend will be saying “should I let my wife live or die?”😳 He definitely was a covert narcissist ! Super scary😢

Thank you whistleblower, thank god he said something. He risked his life for sure.

I trust a resident to be present and even participate in my heart surgery But if the actual doctor isn’t there…

The surgeons made 2 mil a year, the hospital made an extra 150 mil. no one admitted guilt or was charged or had their license revoked. the hospital paid 15 million, keeping a profit of 135 million and admitted nothing. HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF DETERRENT OR PUNISHMENT ??? what a joke our system has become.

These medical professionals need to go to prison.

*Thank You Whistleblower 😮* That's my worst fear ever to be on the operation table wit a rookie