One doctor’s decadeslong trail of injured women, babies began in New York
This is the first in a five-part investigative series on how an OB/GYN named Thomas J. Byrne managed to regain his medical license in multiple states after health officials in New York declared him to be an “imminent danger” to the public and revoked his license decades earlier. Hear this story on NYC Now, with new episodes every Saturday.It was a rare injury during what is typically a routine medical procedure.
But a Gothamist investigation found that Byrne has a decadeslong record of malpractice allegations. According to over 4,000 pages of public documents and court filings, former patients and their family members across multiple states have filed nearly two dozen lawsuits throughout his career that allege he negligently caused injury or death.
A “reference report” generated by a company conducting a background check on Byrne on behalf of a hospital in Oklahoma in 2000 was included in court records obtained by Gothamist. It quotes a former supervisor at the University of New Mexico, Dr. Michael Owen Gardner, who said he had “difficulty” with Byrne while Byrne was a fellow in training at the university between 1994 and 1996.
“I am aware of Dr. Byrne's problems in the state of New York,” Dr. Sandford L. Yankow, an OB-GYN in New Mexico, wrote in 1997. “I have no reservations about his ability, character or medical skills and/or judgment.” When EMS arrived they noted in their records that Lam was “alert and oriented.” But paramedics also suggested they take her to a hospital because her placenta had not been expelled during birth. Karten said they gave Lam’s husband two options: New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University, located about two miles uptown, or Harlem Hospital.
NYC Health + Hospitals declined to comment on Lam’s case, which eventually settled for $3 million. In court records, attorneys for the hospital said what happened to her was "...a rare and unforeseeable, lethal event,” but Karten and her medical experts argued that Lam’s life could have been saved if the doctors had acted differently and tried to identify the source of the bleeding sooner.Conclusion from the New York State Department of Health's investigation into Dr.
Byrne had come to work there after attending medical school at Loyola University in Chicago and OB-GYN residencies in North Carolina and New York City in the 1980s. Decades later, in 2014, New York state restored his license – without any restrictions – allowing him to practice in the state once again.
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