Peter Sarantos, MD

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Part 1) BAD BEYOND BELIEF: HERNIA SURGERY AT NFRMC THAT ALMOST KILLED ME
PETER SARANTOS SHODDY SURGERY MEETS CRITERIA FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.
1) DUTY TO THE PATIENT: Peter Sarantos has a duty to his patients, to provide treatment that is in line with the “medical standard of care” Sarantos fell far short from acceptable standards of care. and I sustained injuries resulting from Sarantos’ incompetence.
2) BREACH OF DUTY: SARANTOS LIES TO ME TO COVER HIS SURGICAL MISTAKE, AND THE NEXT DAY I HEMORRAGE
Peter Sarantos MD botched the surgery and then lied to me about the events of my hernia surgery to cover his blunder. They both stated the cause of the excessive bleeding during the surgery was unknown which is a flat out lie. The medical records (Fig 1) indicate that Sarantos screwed up and he tore blood vessels early during the surgery and that is what caused the bleeding. So Sarantos botches the surgery and then he and the PA Cynthia Anders lies to me to cover up Sarantos blunder. He was probably embarrassed because before the surgery he said it would be easy. And he must have been even more embarrassed because he video recorded the surgery for teaching purposes, as I signed a waiver. The bottom line is Sarantos caused the bleeding and he lied to cover it up. The surgical mistake remained secret until the next day. Hours after I was discharged from NFRMC, the sutures holding the torn blood vessels together ruptured and I suffered an internal hemorrhage at home. .
It was several hours after I arrived home when the torn blood vessel ruptured. It felt like a bullet to the right groin. I fell to the floor, crawled to the cell phone and called 911. I went back to NFRMC Emergency department. The right side incision was re-opened to access the pelvic cavity, the blood clots washed out for leak detection. The blood clots blocked the blood flow to my right leg and I developed a DVT- excruciating swollen purple leg, twice the size of the left. Then the blood went into my scrotum and it was the size of a melon, and you can imagine the non-therapeutic comments.
3) CAUSATION: The medical records verify that Peter Sarantos caused the bleeding issues when he tore the blood vessels during surgery. A contributing factor was Sarantos made no mention of the injury to me after the surgery. Another contributing factor to the hemorrhage was the excessive walking after discharge to obtain pain medications. The discharge should have been without incident, but Sarantos forgot to sign the prescriptions, .I had to make multiple trips to the pharmacy after surgery because of his error... If Sarantos and his PA Cynthia Anders PA-C were concerned with my safety they would have at least made sure the discharge went smoothly after screwing up the surgery. But they didn’t even do that right. It was one blunder after another. Minimum standards of care were not met and that lead to the hemorrhage. It was preventable.
4) DAMAGES
Excruciating Out of Control Pain
Internal hemorrhage and Major blood loss
DVT blood clot to right leg (from groin to ankle)
Damaged hernia mesh on the right side. Understandably it was damaged when the ER physician reopened the incision to lavage the blood clots out of the pelvic cavity of leak detection.
Retrograde Ejaculation ((Nerve damage to the bladder) ejaculate into the bladder
Bills from NFRMC for more than $238,000 (I stopped counting and sent them to AVMED)
I am grateful to the ER team that saved my life from the fiasco caused by Peter Sarantos’ incompetence. Hopefully he will not butcher anyone else but be prepared. Before the surgery I asked the circulating nurse in the surgical suite “Is Sarantos a good surgeon?” She stated “He’s fast “ and walked away. I think that was foreshadowing. I found out the hard way what she meant. He almost killed me, and he if he lies to me he will certainly lie to you!!

Dr. Sarantos is a great surgeon. He saved my life and he is very humble about it. He is a pleasant, caring and thorough doctor. I have had many great doctors, but Dr. Sarantos is by far, my favorite. He followed me and cared for me as long as it took for me to get better and then rejoiced with me in my victories and was comforting with my insecurities. I believe in him and he believed in me.