In a letter sent to the House of the Journalist, Roman Marchitan, 36 years old, orthopedic surgeon at the hospital in Marmande, in the southwest of France, presents the case of a boy with an aggressive cancer, who died shortly after Burnei he excised her tumor, contrary to practice, which shows that the amputation was the only one with real chances of saving her life.
“When the parents of a boy beg you to shake your magic wand and save his leg, because on TV it is said that you are the only one able to make world premieres, it is time to become a doctor again for a short time.
It is within your competence and responsibility to explain to them that osteosarcoma is an extremely aggressive cancer and that the principles that have been valid since the end of the 19th century remain broadly valid today. The job of a doctor is to convince parents that amputation, no matter how mutilating, is the only one that offers real chances to save the child’s life.
He, the teacher, excised the tumor in the heel (at this point any orthopedist takes it with his hands and breathes deeply) and the child died shortly after a metastatic extension. What were we doing during this time? We avoid the child’s mother and we avoid discussing the case between us “, the doctor also writes.
“To be a doctor in Romania it’s humiliating in the first place “
He says that Burnei “had reinvented a kind of parallel medicine, contrary to any current logic, treading on victim without a shred of conscience and was obsessed with inventing something “:” He didn’t ask anyone’s opinion, the important thing was ‘le flair’, the inspiration, he was competent in any field “.
“Being a doctor in Romania is primarily humiliating. In daily practice you can squeeze some professional satisfaction, but everything is a continuous compromise with your own conscience. And consciousness gradually erodes under the pressure of routine and those who ‘survive’ develop a kind of moral corns, otherwise you can not continue.Without victimizing the profession, if you try to understand what happens to the system, how the opaque environment of Romanian medicine really works, you can not reduce everything to twine and malpractice.
(…) Most of them are decent and professional guys and each of them, if he goes abroad, breathes a sigh of relief because he no longer needs strings and is no longer obliged to send the patient to buy infusions and screws “, says the surgeon in the letter to the Journalist’s House.
Roman Marchitan also claims that Burnei sometimes operated on adults “without worrying that he had no medical training in this regard”.
Doctor Gheorghe Burnei from the “Marie Curie” Hospital in the Capital was detained Saturday night for 24 hours, and then he was placed under house arrest for 30 days.
He is accused of taking bribes and suspected of unauthorized experiments on children.
The denunciation against the surgeon Gheorghe Burnei was made in September, and the case concerns 17 acts of corruption committed between October and November, according to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Bucharest Tribunal.
Investigators have information that Gheorghe Burnei allegedly demanded amounts between 1,000 lei and 1,000 euros for an operation, according to some judicial sources.
Approximately 50 envelopes with money that were allegedly received by Gheorghe Burnei were found during the searches made at the Orthopedics department at the “Marie Curie” Hospital, many of them being placed in books in the library of the health unit.
Metal plates were also used to fasten pieces of broken bones that were held in commercially used bags. From the existing data so far in the file, the orthopedic surgeon Gheorghe Burnei allegedly performed experiments on children in over 20 cases.
Judicial sources also stated for News.ro that Gheorghe Burnei would have implanted unapproved ceramic devices for some children, fragments of beef bones, which he boiled, and pieces of tank filters, and in some cases would have used screws taken from the trade.
Burnei told the parents of the children who came to him that he was the only doctor in the world who could perform certain operations, he gave the impression that he is always busy and that if he accepts a case it is a privilege, and in some cases he recommends surgery, although he knew that some deficiencies physical could not be corrected.
Gheorghe Burnei would have told his parents that the prostheses are difficult to obtain and would have conditioned the surgery on their purchase from the company he collaborates with, Argonmed SRL, although medical devices were provided free of charge by the hospital in such cases. The orthopedic surgeon allegedly used both approved medical devices and some specially created for him, which were not approved.
Investigators also have data that some surgeries performed by Gheorghe Burnei did not comply with any medical procedure, that there were situations in which children operated by him died, but also cases in which children were left with permanent disabilities.
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