How California Medical Board keeps negligent doctors in business

Lenora Lewis hoped spinal surgery would relieve her chronic back pain. But when the mother of three from Lancaster awoke from the operation in 2013, she was paralyzed from the waist down, her feet numb but for the horrifying sensation of “a billion ants running through them.”

What she didn’t know then was that her surgeon, Dr. Mukesh Misra, had been publicly accused by the Medical Board of California of operating on the wrong side of another patient’s brain.

Lenora Lewis, who went to Dr. Mukesh Misra for a spinal surgery to treat her degenerative disc disease and lower back pain, sits in front of her Lancaster home. “Every day, I have to wake up and deal with the ramifications of what he did to me,” she said.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

In March, after investigating Lewis’ case — and another in which a 46-year-old woman died of complications from a severed artery discovered minutes after Misra operated on her…

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