“I can’t believe it’s my life”: A Grand Junction doctor is accused of using his own sperm to impregnate patients
November - 2019, Posted ON October 29, 2019

Denver, US – 29th October, 2019: In December 2018, Maia Emmons-Boring did what many people curious about their family history do: She took a home DNA test. But when she received her results, she learned the man she had called her father for her entire life wasn’t her biological relative.

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71.5% of doctors experience verbal, physical attack from patients
November - 2019, Posted ON November 11, 2019

Korea – 11th November, 2019: Seven out of 10 physicians said they have been attacked verbally or physically by patients or guardians in the past three years, a survey showed.

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Appeals court upholds $29 million medical negligence verdict for Illinois man
November - 2019, Posted ON November 13, 2019

Illinois, US – 13th November, 2019: A federal appeals court upheld a nearly $30 million verdict for an Illinois man who was forced to undergo a kidney transplant after being cared for by an East St. Louis health clinic.

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B.C. parents blame medical negligence in toddler’s death
November - 2019, Posted ON October 29, 2019

Vancouver, Canada – 29th October, 2019: When Carter Thornton woke up on May 12, 2018, he was his regular, frisky little self. His mother Shelly Bunnah says the two-year-old was alert and behaving as normal. She says Carter threw his bottle in the sink, before she went downstairs to use the washroom.

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Breast milk equipment linked to 3 premie deaths in Pennsylvania
November - 2019, Posted ON November 09, 2019

Pennsylvania, US – 9th November, 2019: A lawsuit filed this week accused a Pennsylvania hospital of negligence in failing to let families know about a bacterial contamination in donor breast milk that killed three babies and sickened eight.

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County hospital ordered to pay $1.2M in negligence suit
November - 2019, Posted ON November 07, 2019

Maine, US – 7th November, 2019: A Perham woman was awarded $1.2 million in damages in a medical negligence lawsuit against Cary Medical Center, according to an official at the Aroostook County Superior Court in Caribou.

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Former Idaho Falls doctor admits to using his own sperm to impregnate patients
November - 2019, Posted ON November 07, 2019

Idaho, US – 7th November, 2019: A former Idaho Falls gynecologist who is being sued for using his own sperm to impregnate patients receiving fertility treatments has admitted to the accusation in a December deposition.

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Glaucoma Patient Who Went Blind Receives £3.2m Compensation
November - 2019, Posted ON November 17, 2019

Southampton, UK – 11th November, 2019: A patient who went blind as a result of delayed appointments for glaucoma treatment has received £3.2m in compensation from the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

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La Quinta doctor put on three years’ probation after being accused of negligence
November - 2019, Posted ON November 01, 2019

California, US – 1st November, 2019: A La Quinta doctor was placed on three years’ probation last week after the executive director of the state medical board accused him of committing gross negligence in three instances.

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Man sues hospital for medical negligence
November - 2019, Posted ON October 31, 2019

Kisumu, Kenya – 31st October, 2019: Sospeter Onyatta claims what was supposed to be a routine dialysis for his 23-year-old son turned fatal because of negligence of a nurse and doctor who were on duty at the hospital in Kisumu.

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Mother of brain-damaged boy wins US$101M in malpractice suit
November - 2019, Posted ON November 06, 2019

Chicago, US – 6th November, 2019: A jury awarded US$101 million to the mother of a severely brain-damaged boy who sued a Chicago-area hospital for medical malpractice, but an agreement between the parties cut the amount to $50 million, a lawyer said Tuesday.

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Second doctor assaulted in a week after Sunshine Hospital shift
November - 2019, Posted ON November 19, 2019

Melbourne, Australia – 19th November, 2019: Beefed-up security and police will patrol the streets around Sunshine Hospital in Melbourne's west after two young doctors were brutally assaulted in the space of a week after finishing work.

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Suspected fake doctor arrested after four deaths in Germany
November - 2019, Posted ON November 06, 2019

Germany – 6th November, 2019: A 48-year-old woman, accused of causing four deaths after faking her medical qualifications, has been arrested in Germany.

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US Doctor Accused Of Needlessly Removing Uteruses Of Women
November - 2019, Posted ON November 22, 2019

Virginia, US – 22nd November, 2019: In the two weeks since authorities accused Virginia gynaecologist Javaid Perwaiz of performing unnecessary surgeries on women to collect insurance kickbacks, hundreds of distraught former patients have contacted federal authorities, concerned they might be among the people who allegedly endured invasive procedures they did not want or need.

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Woman’s Midtown death jump ‘could have been avoided,’ family says
November - 2019, Posted ON November 16, 2019

Brooklyn, US – 16th November, 2019: She didn’t have to die.

A young Brooklyn woman jumped to her death from a Midtown hotel because a city hospital failed to give her the care she needed, her parents charged in a lawsuit.

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