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Son of 2nd patient who died after Florida surgeon operated on her describes family’s heartbreak: ‘It’s just not right’

NBC News Top Stories·Matt Lavietes·about 2 months ago
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After his mother’s surgery, Weyman Dorsett worried something was wrong. His unease grew as he watched an ICU doctor check his mother’s medical charts. “I’ll never forget and it’ll never leave my mind, the look on that doctor’s face as he was reading through the files,” Dorsett, 53, said. “He was just shaking his head, like, ‘what in the living hell is going on?’” His mother, 70-year-old Dorothy Dorsett, was in recovery after a surgeon removed a tumor from her digestive tract. But she was hardly eating and had an abnormally fast heartbeat, according to a lawsuit Dorsett later filed. She was moved to the intensive care unit nearly a week after the surgery. “She just started really spiraling, pain,” Dorsett said. “She was not my mom.” Dorothy Dorsett died days later, on Aug. 4, 2023. About a year later, another patient, William Bryan, 70, died after the same surgeon operated on him.…

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