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Doctor who covered up wrong-site surgery is back on the job

Published February 2010

The New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners found Santusht Perera, MD guilty of wrong-site surgery at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, NJ, and of altering medical records and lying to the patient to cover it up. The board fined him more than $80,000, suspended his license for six months, and placed him on probation from Dec. 7, 2008 to June 6, 2010. Now, Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC) has granted him privileges to practice, according to a January 31 article in The Jersey Journal.

According to the news article, the hospital felt they had to grant Perera privileges although it is always the medical staff’s choice to grant privileges, they are never forced into this situation.

“CEO Spiros Hatiras defended HUMC's decision to give Perera privileges to [a news reporter], saying that once the medical license was reinstated, the hospital ‘had little choice’ but to reinstate him, or risk a lawsuit; especially since Perera had privileges at the hospital before the suspension,” according to the article.

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