The case is revealed in "Israel Today" • According to suspects, the interns did not perform some of the analyzes they stated • Ministry of Health: Police complaint accessible

• Suspicion of forgery at Rambam Hospital

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 Exposure: According to new findings from the Ministry of Health's investigation, two doctors at Haifa's Rambam Government Hospital received their expertise based on a list of surgeries, some of which, according to the investigation report, were not actually done in the operating room at the time .

The investigation also reveals that without the forgery of part of the list of surgeries they did in 2015-2017 on a hospital computer, both doctors would not meet the threshold conditions for expertise in Israel and would not receive the Ministry of Health's recognition and certificate of specialty in osteoarthritis and head surgery. And neck. Thus, according to the findings of the Health Ministry investigation.

An official complaint will be filed

Israel Today has also learned that the Ministry of Health intends to file a formal complaint with the police this week on suspicion of criminal offenses. In addition, following the findings of the investigation, an unusual step was taken to initiate a disciplinary procedure to revoke the two-ear specialist's examination of Rambam's physicians, and to transfer the findings to the Civil Service Commissioner of Discipline.

It was also agreed that until a new announcement, the appointment of new interns in the department would be halted, but the specialization of the six doctors in the department would continue as usual. It was also decided that the clinical responsibility for interns in the department be transferred to a senior physician in the department, and that involvement in the case of senior physicians be examined, alleging change and falsifying the list of surgeries of the two interns, as evidenced by the findings of the investigation.

A senior Health Ministry official told Israel Today that "this is one of the most serious discharges ever discovered in Israel in the area of ​​providing specialty physicians in Israel, and that the findings of the investigation raise very difficult questions regarding supervision and control over the provision of expertise in Israel as well as the manner in which Rambah Hospital management supervises and investigates "They closed the case after first complaints were brought to her about two years ago, but there is concern that she did not investigate the complaints in depth and actually received the doctor's versions without examination."

Most surgeries

Rambam Hospital is the largest and most important hospital in the north of Israel and the largest in the country, and Rambam's head and neck and head and neck surgery department, headed by Prof. Ziv Gil, is the department with the largest number of surgeries in Israel - about 3,500 surgeries a year . In recent years, the department is considered one of the leading departments in Israel, and it has a unique program for choosing the surgeon free of charge from the surgical patient.

As revealed in "Israel Today" in May this year, the Ministry of Health has been investigating serious suspicions in recent months that two GPs have forged and fabricated dozens of surgery reports on the Rambam Government Hospital computer in Haifa to put their name as they did months and years earlier in the nose department Throat and head and neck surgery. This, although suspected, does not share much of these analyzes.

Rambam spokesmen

Each surgeon's list of surgeries determines whether or not he will receive a specialty law in the area of ​​medical specialty, and it is suspected that the change will be made to complete the required quota of physicians for recognition of an internship and the receipt of a specialist certificate by the Ministry of Health. The doctors received an expert certificate from the Ministry of Health in 2016 and 2017, and today one of the doctors works as a senior in the Rambam department and the additional doctor works abroad.

Suspicions are being investigated in recent months in the Ministry of Health, the hospital's management and the Scientific Council of the Medical Federation - the council, which is entrusted by the Ministry of Health with all the specialization of doctors in all medical institutions in Israel, and thus has a decisive impact on the quality of doctors and medicine in all hospitals and clinics in Israel. .

The recently concluded Health Ministry investigation was conducted in the hospital's hospital division, and the investigation revealed that changes made during the forgery on the hospital computer were made to add doctors' names as participants in the operation or to define them as the primary surgeon in surgery instead of secondary surgeon. The Health Ministry investigation also revealed that on some days, doctors on the hospital computer changed as if they were completing the operation - they were registered on vacation, illness, reserve or continuing education. As part of an investigation into Rambam's case, the specialist doctors explained that the changes to the surgery reports were made according to the surgery they actually did, and that they would have gained the expertise even without these changes. "Israel Today" asked for a response to the harsh claims about the case by the Rambam management. Headed by Dr. Michael Halbertal, the responses of the two specializing physicians as well as the reactions of the department's management.

Rambam: "We will cooperate"

Maimonides said in response: "The issue has been undergoing extensive examination by the Medical Association and the Ministry of Health in recent months, and Rambam's management is fully cooperating with the examination process. Accordingly, all required information, including medical records, physician attendance reports and any findings requested, has been forwarded. We await the findings and cooperate with the necessary decisions and actions. "

The Medical Federation said that "this is an event that can have far-reaching implications for the department and the hospital in general. Such an event requires a clear and clear statement from the Ministry of Health. The Scientific Council of the Medical Association, which believes in proper training and quality of specialization in the country, will investigate the matter in depth. And following the findings, the treatment was transferred to the Ministry of Health, which is the regulator, calling for an in-depth investigation into the means available by the Ministry of Health as a regulator. We are pleased to note the Ministry of Health's decision to operate operatively following the recommendation of the Scientific Council of the Medical Association. "

Dr. Lior Unger, Chairman of the Medical Federation Internship Forum: "The agenda of the Internal Medicine Internship Forum is to preserve the intern's proper professional training, and to maintain his proper rights and working conditions. We have struggled to do so, and we are pleased to announce this unfortunate affair. The interns in the department will not be harmed and they will have to complete their internship in their department. " The Ministry of Health only stated that "the Ministry is continuing with extensive review of the incident."