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Fluoride
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on a rock or mountain out west
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 9, 2006 - 08:28pm PT
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A neurosurgeon was wrestled to the floor by sheriff's deputies outside the operating room after he threw a fit because he had to wait for instruments to be sterilized, authorities say.
Dr. Federico Castro-Moure, 45, was arrested Monday night at Highland Hospital and will be charged with a misdemeanor count of interfering with deputies, said sheriff's Capt. William Eskridge.
Castro-Moure, the hospital's chief of neurosurgery since 2002, allegedly became belligerent when nurses told him that instruments brought in from another medical facility had to be sterilized.
Eskridge said the deputies believed Castro-Moure was drunk, and two nurses told investigators they had smelled alcohol on the doctor's breath.
Castro-Moure told deputies he drank a glass of wine with dinner, but he refused to take an alcohol breath test five times until a sergeant showed up.
He took two breath tests. Neither showed him to be intoxicated, but he had not blown into the device long enough for a proper reading, Eskridge said.
During the dispute, the doctor insisted that a man who broke his ankles and fractured his spine in a two-story fall needed immediate attention and urged staffers to skip the two-hour sterilization process, the sheriff's department said.
Two other surgeons, however, had determined earlier that the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said. The patient received the surgery the following day.
It took three deputies to subdue the doctor.
"He was aggressive. He was angry, agitated, yelling and out of control. That's when the deputies had to take him down," Eskridge said.
Castro-Moure was jailed and released several hours later on $4,000 bail. The doctor was placed on leave while the hospital investigates.
A woman who answered the phone at Castro-Moure's home Thursday said he had no comment.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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surgeons can be like that
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Fluoride
Trad climber
on a rock or mountain out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2006 - 08:53pm PT
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His mugshot was priceless. You can tell it took three deputies to subdue the guy, he looked pretty rough.
Just never know with those surgeon types I guess. Must be the God complex.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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I have a long estranged friend who came from a brilliant Irish-Russian family where every human in the family tree going back forever was an alcoholic and many had died from it. He is a good looking, charming, a great gymnast, talented guitarist, and cruised through school to become cardiologist. But he drank by slowly but continuouslly raising is blood alcohol level over weeks/months with vodka. He finally started having petit mal seizures and scripting himself for dilanten to keep at it. He finally had a grand mal seizure walking into to an operating room. We put him through two tough back-to-back rehab programs and he was drinking the day he walked out of the second one and likely still is. Lost his license in two states the last I heard and don't know what became of him. As a foot note, in that family the women are the ones that manage to beat it becoming pretty brittle in the process. The men never seemed to except his brother who was the worst of the bunch but somehow had managed to turn it around - hope he managed to stay clean...
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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I'm not at all surprised because I know for a fact that an extremely well trained left (rational) brain, as most doctors must have, means little to nothing at all in terms of psychological maturity. It amazes me that people believe that if you cram your bean full of facts and figures and flex your cognition that everything else will be fine.
JL
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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"It took three deputies to subdue the man."
Was he a surgeon or a sturgeon?
Actually a good friend of mine is a surgeon who sometimes scares me going into the OR with 3 glasses of wine in him, not to mention the effects of 3 decades of chronic sleep deprivation.
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