Evaluation of UC Davis Medical Center's handling of neurosurgeons is scathing
In November, Dr. Claire Pomeroy, dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, announced she would be stepping down. Her boss, UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, made no link between Pomeroy’s departure and the investigation into the neurosurgeons, and praised Pomeroy for her “many contributions.” However, the federal watchdog agency came down hard on Pomeroy, stating that she and other top leaders had failed to hold medical staff accountable – and had thus placed all patients at increased risk… Now, more than a year later, medical center officials are adamant that Muizelaar and Schrot never engaged in unapproved research. Instead, the university contends, the surgeons were providing “innovative treatment” to try to save three terminally ill patients, all of whom consented to the procedures.
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by Marjie Lundstrom and Sam Stanton, The Sacramento Bee.