”2002年11月に東京慈恵会医科大付属青戸病院（東京都葛飾区）の腹腔鏡手術ミスで男性患者＝当時（６０）＝が死亡した事件で、業務上過失致死罪に問われた元同病院泌尿器科医師、斑目旬（４０）、長谷川太郎（３７）、前田重孝（３５）の３被告の判決公判が１５日、東京地裁で開かれた。栃木力裁判長は、長谷川被告に禁固２年６月、執行猶予５年（求刑禁固２年６月）を、斑目、前田両被告に禁固２年、執行猶予４年（求刑同）を言い渡した。”
Three Jikei University School of Medicine doctors were handed suspended prison terms Thursday for a botched 11-1/2 hour operation during which they had to use manual to do a procedure they were unfamiliar with, causing their 60-year-old prostate cancer patient to die.
The Tokyo District Court found Jun Madarame, 40, the head surgeon; Taro Hasegawa, 37, the patient's attending physician and an assisting surgeon; and surgical resident Shigetaka Maeda, 35, guilty of professional negligence for conducting a new procedure to remove the man's prostate glant when they did not have enough experience to do it.
医者達はどうしてよいか分からずマニュアルを見たり、装置製作者や他の医者に電話をしながら手術を行い、患者の動脈を破裂させたようです。
The doctors were so unsure of what they were doing, they had to have a manual open over the man's body as well as the device's manufacturer and another docter on the phone telling them what to do. In the process, they ruptured veins.
”栃木裁判長は判決理由で「腹腔鏡手術の経験を積みたいという自己中心的な利益を優先し、患者の安全の確保という医師として最も基本的な責務を忘れた行為」と、３被告を強く批判した。”
Presiding Judge Tsutomu Tochigi said the defendants' misplaced ambition led them to proceed with the operation even though they did not have sufficient training.
"The three put their desire to gain more experience ahead of their patient's safety and foregot the most basic part of a doctor's obligation," Tochigi said.
大学病院の研修医や医者の問題は2003年か2004年か忘れましたが、TVドラマ”白い巨塔”で描かれていました。漫画”ブラックジャックによろしく”でも垣間見ることができます。それにしても、事実は小説よりも奇なりですね。医者のモラルが低下している中、自分の命をうかうか医者にまかされないというのが現実なのですね。
