Melbourne, Apr 20 : Controversial Indian-born surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel a. k. a `Dr. Death', who is currently facing a committal hearing into allegations of manslaughter over the deaths of three patients, will stand trial on 14 charges involving the death of three people.

Former Bundaberg Base Hospital surgeon Patel will also face trial on charges of causing serious injury to two others and fraud in getting his job in Queensland.

Sydney  - US doctor Jayant Patel on Monday was committed to stand trial in Australia for the deaths of three of his patients in a Queensland hospital in what police allege was bungled surgery.

The manslaughter charges stem from Indian-born Patel's time as director of surgery at Bundaberg Base Hospital between 2003 and 2005.

Patel, 59, was extradited from Portland, Oregon, to face the charges.

Brisbane, Feb. 25 : Controversial Indian-born surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel a. k. a `Dr. Death', who is currently facing a committal hearing into allegations of manslaughter over the deaths of two patients, had outdated medical knowledge, and was `erratic' in when things went wrong inside his operation theater, the Brisbane Magistrates Court has learnt.

"If (there were) some problems (he) became a bit erratic," The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Dr Dieter Berens, as saying.

Brisbane, Feb. 23: Controversial Indian-born surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel a. k. a. "Dr. Death" reopened a patient's abdomen and scooped out over two litres of blood, a magistrate's court here was told on Monday.

According to The Australian, Gerry Kemps had lost so much blood after an oesophagectomy in December 2004 that Dr. Patel had to scoop it from his abdomen with a kidney dish, former Bundaberg Base Hospital scrub nurse Katrina Zwolak told the Brisbane Magistrates Court.

Brisbane, Feb. 18 : Controversial Indian-born surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel, who is currently facing a committal hearing into allegations of manslaughter over the deaths of two patients, had "unrealistic expectations" about what surgery could safely be performed at Queensland's Bundaberg Base Hospital, whistleblower nurse Toni Hoffman has told a court here.

In a 47-page statement tendered as evidence in the Brisbane Magistrates Court, Hoffman said she made her first complaint about the surgeon shortly after he started work at the hospital in April 2003.

Hoffman said she believed major procedures were too complex for Patel to be performing at the hospital because it lacked the appropriate post-operative care facilities.

Brisbane, Feb. 17: Controversial Indian-born surgeon Dr. Jayant Patel had a 100 per cent complication rate for inserting dialysis catheters, leading to the procedure being outsourced to a private hospital, a Brisbane magistrate's court has heard.

The Australian quoted Bundaberg Base Hospital nurse Robyn Pollock as telling Dr. Patel''s committal hearing that the surgeon had inserted six renal patients'' catheters in the 12 months from August 2003.