Dr. Darius Tsatsi was featured in a CBC television report in 2005 on his family's first Christmas in Canada. (CBC)Questions of competency were raised 2ВЅ years ago about the radiologist whose work has led to an unprecedented review of 70,000 medical images, a spokesman for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan says.
On Thursday, the Yorkton-based Sunrise Health Region announced it suspended Dr. Darius Tsatsi from privileges at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre on May 14 after serious problems were found in cases Tsatsi had been involved in.
The college said after other radiologists double-checked Tsatsi's work on 103 randomly chosen cases from last year, there was a "high incidence of disagreement."
"A worrisome proportion of those disagreements involve clinical situations in which a diagnostic error could have devastating adverse consequences for patients," the college said in a background document released to the media Wednesday.
