Patients were injured, died under care of NY doctor. He moved to New Mexico and kept practicing.

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Nearly 33 years ago, Donita Henry testified at a hearing about what happened to her and her daughter, Megan, while under the care of an OB-GYN named Thomas J. Byrne as part of an investigation by New York state into whether he was fit to safely practice medicine.

Henry began seeing Byrne for prenatal care in October 1989, according to the state’s records, shortly after she’d become pregnant. She was 25 years old at the time and living in Geneva, New York, a small city on the northern shore of Seneca Lake, near Rochester.

“This was my first child, so I did not know what to expect. I’m going to trust my doctor, obviously,” Henry recalled in an interview with Gothamist.

She said she later learned that trust was misplaced.

In 1991, the Board of Professional Medical Conduct, a branch of the New York health department, found Byrne guilty on a host of charges, including gross negligence, gross incompetence, negligence on more than one occasion, incompetence on more than one occasion, obtaining a license fraudulently and practicing the profession fraudulently.

In Henry’s case, the state’s investigation determined that Byrne deviated from acceptable medical care 15…