Alliance for Patient Safety

                            All that is necessary for the triumph of evil…
                                                                … is for good men to do nothing.

                                                                                                        Edmund Burke

Retaliation Against Michael Basco, M.D.

Dr. Basco reported a nurse for giving pitocin to his patient in labor without his orders. Patient attempted a Vaginal Birth After a previous Cesarean Section, VBAC. Patient had an emergency cesarean section due to a uterine rupture with a death of the infant 30 days later.

The hospital summarily suspended Dr. Basco' s clinical privileges, in order to defend it self in the medical malpractice law suit that followed.

  • Supreme Court of Texas Rules in Favor of Dr. Basco - 4/20/2007
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  • Letter from Professor and Chairman of OB/GYN Department University of Texas Southwestern, F. Gary Cunningham, M.D. in support of Dr. Basco - 11/18/2008
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  • Letter from Texas Medical Association Patient - Physician Advocacy Committee, Robert V. Carr, M.D. in support of Dr. Basco - 12/14/2005
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  • Plaintiff's Fourth Amended Petition complaining of Baylor Medical Center at Grapevine - 3/2005
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