With an apology to all our former and future patients and their families, as well as to the Montenegrin public for not contacting us earlier, and fully aware that we will disturb the readers with this letter, we respond to the falsehoods, insults and humiliations communicated in the author's text by Dr. Aleksandar Nikolić, "Obstruction with a goal".
The problems of Dr. Nikolić, the current director of the Center for Cardiac Surgery in KCCG, do not lie in the intention of KC director Dr. Milan Mijović to remove him from the position of manager, nor in the intention of Montenegrin cardiac surgeons to expel him from Montenegro, as the text suggests.
Dr. Srđan Pavićević is the first doctor from Montenegro who completed cardiac surgery training in one of the developed European countries, Italy. He formed a team of doctors with whom he performed the first open heart surgery in Montenegro, in April 2003. So, all this happened "only" five years before the arrival of Dr. Nikolić in Montenegro. Dr. Pavićević continued to operate independently until September 2008. Dr. Aleksandar Mugoša also completed his subspecialization in the field of cardiac surgery in Italy. As a student of the first generation, he successfully completed his education at the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade.
Dr. Aleksandar Radović, after specializing in the field of General Surgery, also as a student of the first generation of the Department of Cardiac Surgery, completed a narrower specialization in Cardiac Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade. We all met Dr. Nikolić for the first time only when we officially completed our education.
The real problems of Dr. Aleksandar Nikolić are:
He becomes unwelcome in all clinics of his home country and comes to Montenegro in 2008. Dr. Nikolić's real problem lies in the fact that he does not have a degree in cardiac surgery, and he was never educated in the prescribed manner for the profession of cardiac surgeon, but for 400 euros he buys a degree from a non-governmental association, without prior verification of theoretical and practical knowledge. This is also confirmed by the statement of the President of the Medical Chamber of Serbia, regarding the "Case of Dr. Nikolić":
"The Medical Chamber of Serbia will not allow anyone to get a license for a degree they do not possess, because in that case a doctor with such a license puts patients at risk by treating them with inadequate methods and methods."
The paper obtained in this way, however, was enough for the Medical Chamber of Montenegro to issue him a license to work as a cardiovascular surgeon.
The work of Dr. Aleksandar Nikolić in Montenegro has been investigated by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption for a year now. For his four years of work in Montenegro (excluding regular salaries, paid accommodation, plane tickets at least twice a month on the route Podgorica-Belgrade-Skoplje), he earned no less than 802.000 euros, which, in addition to the previously listed items, totals more of 1.000.000.
It is interesting that he earned most of that money for the operations that the three of us did when he, not only was not at work, but was not in Montenegro. Only in this way, over the course of four years, Dr. Nikolić earned more than 460.000, solely through our work and responsibility. These "million" reasons are probably the main motive of Dr. Nikolić to discredit us professionally and personally in order to open up space for him to re-sign some "hidden" contract and make enormous profits.
Due to abuse of the position of the director of the Center for Cardiac Surgery, unprofessional behavior and wrong decisions during the treatment of patients, the entire team of the Center for Cardiac Surgery, all employed specialists and subspecialists, addressed the authorities - Director of KCCG, Dr. Milan Mijović, Minister of Health, Dr. Miodrag Radunović, and Prime Minister Milo Đukanović. with an application for admission. All our letters went unanswered.
The results of the TAVI procedure mentioned in the text, which Dr. Nikolić is so proud of in the media, and on which more than 500.000 euros were spent, are so discouraging that the complications in the twenty procedures performed so far and the poor results of the treatment forced us from the medical director KCCG prof. Dr. Ljilje Music, we demand the formation of an expert commission that would analyze the results of the work and stop the application, in the hands of Dr. Nikolić, of an ineffective and unsafe method. With confidence in the institutions of the system, we expect that the Basic Prosecutor's Office will soon, in accordance with legal regulations, examine and verify the legality of Dr. Nikolić's work in Montenegro, and that we three Montenegrin cardiac surgeons will thereby cease to be his "problem".
Finally, Dr. Nikolić, we will address you as well: We believe that the million euros, which you undeservedly received in Montenegro, can at least partially reduce the bitterness of a desperate person who was discovered in an unscrupulous fraud. This concludes our address to the Montenegrin media.
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