The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance. Patients Paid the Price. - WSJ
The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance. Patients Paid the Price. - WSJ The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance. Patients Paid the Price. Indian Health Service hired dozens of physicians with trails of medical mistakes and regulatory sanctions—sometimes to disastrous effect By Christopher Weaver , Dan Frosch and Lisa Schwartz | Photographs by Adria Malcolm for The Wall Street Journal Updated Nov. 22, 2019 12:05 pm ET SHARE TEXT 239 RESPONSES Henry Stachura’s surgical career at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, N.M., ended the day a patient died after he operated on her abdomen. The case led to his fifth malpractice settlement in five years, court and licensing records show. After Memorial officials suspended him permanently, citing “multiple serious deficits in judgment,” he tried to find work in Nevada, but a licensing board rejected his application. Thr...