84-year-old veteran died after nursing home staff ignored his infected, rotting genitals
December - 2018, Posted ON December 14, 2018

Florida, US – 14th December, 2018: An 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran’s pressing medical needs were blatantly ignored by a Jacksonville, Florida, nursing home staff last year — and he died shortly after.

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Doctor cleared in Jackson negligence lawsuit
December - 2018, Posted ON December 21, 2018

Wyoming, US – 21st December, 2018: Twelve jurors cleared anesthesiologist Dave Tomlinson of negligence charges after an eight-day trial in Teton County District Court. Jurors deliberated for about 2 1/2 hours before coming to their decision.

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Doctors Assaulted At Greystone In 'Atmosphere Of Terror': Lawsuit
December - 2018, Posted ON December 19, 2018

New Jersey, US – 19th December, 2018: An "atmosphere of terror and retaliation" has led to serious assaults and several deaths at Greystone Psychiatric Park in recent years, according to a blistering lawsuit filed against the state by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender.

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Doctors said woman was brain dead and removed her life support. Now she’s almost totally recovered
December - 2018, Posted ON December 10, 2018

Washington, US – 6th December, 2018: We have reported countless times at LifeNews about cases where patients were viewed as brain dead or too far gone. In so many cases, doctors and medical staff — even families of patients — believe that the end has been reached.

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Family claims negligence in death of Honduran transgender migrant
December - 2018, Posted ON December 03, 2018

Albuquerque, US – 28th November, 2018: An attorney representing the family of a Honduran transgender migrant who died while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims the woman did not receive adequate medical care and was physically abused.

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Family of woman who died in Texas jail files wrongful death lawsuit
December - 2018, Posted ON December 22, 2018

Texas, US – 22nd December, 2018: The family of a woman who died after being held for five months in a Texas jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, according to attorney Les Sachanowicz.

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Florida family sues hospital for 'causing father to overdose after a back surgery'
December - 2018, Posted ON December 12, 2018

Florida, US – 12th December, 2018: A Florida doctor may never be able to walk or breathe on his own after his family claims medical staffers -- at the very hospital he served for more than 30 years -- gave him a lethal dose of a painkiller called Dilaudid.

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Heartbreaking photo of cancer patient, 82, forced to wait SEVEN HOURS in A&E despite fears she had suffered heart attack
December - 2018, Posted ON December 01, 2018

UK – 27th November, 2018: Olive Keers, 82, had been rushed to the emergency ward after telling medics during a chemotherapy session that she had suffered chest pains the previous night.

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Leading medical supply maker reportedly linked to many breaches
December - 2018, Posted ON December 01, 2018

Washington, US – 26th November, 2018: A world leader in medical technology, the American firm Medtronic, may be linked to as many as 9,300 deaths and 292,000 injuries in the US alone, according to an analysis published Sunday by an international journalists’ group.

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Man wins RM300K in hospital negligence suit
December - 2018, Posted ON December 08, 2018

Johor Baru, Malaysia US – 8th December, 2018: A businessman who was awarded almost RM300,000 in a medical negligence suit, says he sued the specialist and private hospital to ensure medical practitioners take their jobs seriously.

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No ‘justification’ for attacks on medical personnel — ministry
December - 2018, Posted ON December 24, 2018

Amman, Jordan – 24th December, 2018: Health Minister Ghazi Zaben on Sunday stressed that the ministry “will not be lenient” in prosecuting the perpetrators who attacked a doctor while he was on duty, according to a ministry statement sent to The Jordan Times.  

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Ohio couple accuses Raleigh County health care providers or medical negligence
December - 2018, Posted ON December 11, 2018

Ohio, US – 11th December, 2018: An Ohio Couple is suing Raleigh County health care providers, alleging medical negligence in the treatment of their newborn child.

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Patient's relatives attack doctor for refusing to break hospital rules
December - 2018, Posted ON December 26, 2018

Najran, Saudi Arabia – 26th December, 2018: A female doctor of an Arab nationality was attacked by relatives of a patient because she refused to violate the hospital rules.

 

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Review underway as Crumlin Hospital apologises to woman told she didn't have cancer gene
December - 2018, Posted ON December 17, 2018

UK – 17th December, 2018: The UK hospital which carried out testing on an Irish woman for cancer gene BRCA1 said the woman tested positive for the gene - and they passed on this information to her doctors in Crumlin.

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'They could have saved her' Heartbroken mum of meningitis baby who died after doctors sent her home
December - 2018, Posted ON December 23, 2018

Edinburgh, UK – 23rd December, 2018: A premature baby who died of meningitis less than a day after being sent home from hospital could have been saved, senior doctors have confirmed.

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Trinidad: Husband claims wife’s death after giving birth due to hospital’s negligence
December - 2018, Posted ON December 19, 2018

Trinidad – 19th December, 2018: The griev­ing com­mon-law hus­band of 26-year-old Maquad­er Mar­tin wants an­swers be­fore his wife is laid to rest.

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Turkish doctors say hospital violence out of control
December - 2018, Posted ON December 05, 2018

Istanbul, Turkey – 5th December, 2018: In the pediatrics department of Harran University Hospital, a patient’s father was not satisfied with the answer the doctor provided about his son’s fever. He struck the doctor’s head twice with a stone.

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