MINNEAPOLIS—The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice disciplined Dr. Erol Uke, an Edina, Minn., urologist and temporarily barred him from inpatient surgery after he removed the wrong kidney from a cancer patient in 2008.
The board’s decision also was based on a second infraction that occurred in July 2008 when Uke conducted a biopsy of a patient’s pancreas instead of the patient’s right kidney.
As reported by the Pioneer Press, the disciplinary order limits Uke to 40-hour work weeks and to outpatient or office-based procedures only. He will submit to supervision by an approved doctor, but can eventually appeal for reduced monitoring if he shows "satisfactory evidence that he is fit and competent to resume the performance of surgery," according to the board's order.
