Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Winnipeg free october local surgeon says he got mixed signals by Paul medical reporter the surgeon at the Centre of an inquest into the deaths of babies after heart surgery yesterday described How he got mixed sepals from Hospital officials about his Jonah Odim testified he went from being As Good As if not better than the previous to a Scapegoat for problems with the surgery program that health sciences Centre suspended in 1994 due to mortality in the Odim testified his career is Back on he said he has moved from being the head of surgery for paediatric car Diac care in Winnipeg to being an assistant surgeon at a Hospital where he is training residents to do cardiac in trying to get Back into clinical work because of the Sto Panago of the last few Odim dims current work came under question yesterday after his lawyer applied to keep his Job out of the pub Lic associate chief Provin Cial court judge Murray Sinclair ruled the surgeons current work is Odim said he spent a couple of months at Emory University in Georgia after leaving Winnipeg in and then moved he said for the past couple of months he has worked with four other cardiac surgeons on heart trans including operations to implant artificial hearts and other mechanical coronary in both children and in the nine months he performed cardiac surgery on children in Winnipeg in Odim said he thought he had the support of the adm Nistra even after anaesthetists walked out on him to protest mortality the chairman of the internal com Mittee struck to review dims Surg eries in the summer of 1994 decided beforehand there was nothing wrong with dims t was told my results were As Good As if not better than the previous sur Odim testified under Cross examination by lawyer Saul Sim who represents parents of children who died that Odim said Nathan then chief paediatric made the favourable appraisal in May just after the Hospital appointed him to head the vet within As High risk surgery resumed and the number of deaths the administration had a change of it did occur to me that r was being made the Flim Simmonds wanted to know whether Odim Ever believed he did contribute to the problems in the Odim he i still May be the problem if the members of the team dont want me As a sur Geon and if the institution Doest want me As a he dismissed evidence from other members of his surgical team who testified they were concerned that dims skills contributed to the deaths of some children and threatened the lives of other 1 dont recall any Compromise or inconvenience to any patient because one or two purse strings had to be Odim he was referring to suture lines used to cinch intravenous lines snugly into blood vessels for heart now in his sixth week on the is scheduled to finish his Testi Mony on whats on at downtown in special events mens night october s9300 2nd might Only fashion Shewn entertainment refreshments tickets Call redeemable with 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