In 2008 or early 2009, Dr. Olcese and another chief resident shared concerns about Dr. Desai with his supervisors, senior doctors, and Duke professors during discussions about whether to promote him to the next year of residency. It is unclear what the faculty members discussed during their private deliberations, but eventually Dr. Desai moved up. A Duke spokeswoman would confirm only her time there.
After his residency, Dr. Desai earned a three-month MBA from Western Governors University, an online university based in Salt Lake City, the school confirmed. Then after starting a vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Texas at Houston ran into trouble. He had harassed some supervisors so much that they asked the department president to expel him, said Dr. Hazim Safi, who was in that position.
“The staff who attended did not like his behavior and did not want him to graduate,” Dr. Safi said in an interview.
While Dr. Safi said Dr. Desai could be abrasive, he had worked on documents with the younger doctor and was convinced that the complaints were due to differences in personality and professional jealousy, not to substantial deficiencies in surgical ability. or patient care. Rather than fail, he said, it gave Dr. Desai a chance to work on his professionalism and interpersonal skills.
“I stepped in and he graduated,” said the former president.
In Dr. Desai’s most recent publication at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois, he engaged in at least four pending medical malpractice cases, including three filed in 2019.
Those lawsuits include a claim that he did not properly perform surgery to restore circulation to the leg of the accident victim, which later required a partial amputation. Another alleges that the negligent treatment of Dr. Desai and other doctors resulted in the removal of a substantial part of a patient’s intestine.
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The previous case against the hospital claims that Dr. Desai performed surgery in 2016 to remove plaque buildup from the carotid artery of a 60-year-old man, then failed to show up at the hospital after the patient developed inflammation in neck that caused difficulty swallowing and breathing. The patient then died.
