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Surgeon Who Allegedly Amputated A Woman’s Wrong Leg Was U.S.-Trained
Claim
This post implies that the surgeon responsible for amputating a woman’s wrong leg went to medical school outside of the United States.
Fact
The surgeon accused by an Ohio woman of amputating the wrong leg during surgery did not study medicine outside the United States.
According to his profile on Doximity, Dr. Gregory B. Krivchenia, the accused surgeon, earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
Studies consistently show that international medical graduates deliver care that is equal to and, in some cases, better than U.S. medical graduates.
A 2010 study in Health Affairs that looked at over 240 thousand hospitalizations in Pennsylvania found no significant mortality difference between international and U.S. medical graduates.
A 2017 study in the British Medical Journal found that older patients treated by international graduates in the United States had lower mortality rates.
