Aus: Patel pleads not guilty to charge of causing harm to patient

September 23, 2013 14:19

Indian-origin surgeon Jayant Patel today pleaded not guilty to a charge of causing potentially life-threatening bodily harm to a patient during a surgery nine years ago in Australia.

The 64-year-old doctor, who was the head of surgery at the Bundaberg Hospital in southern Queensland, is facing trial in the Brisbane District Court for unnecessarily removing patient Ian Rodney Vowels's colon during the surgery in 2004.

It took nearly an hour for a jury to be selected.

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