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  • Blundering medic 'sliced baby's neck with scissors' during botched delivery at Ninewells maternity unit
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 15, 2018

    Dundee, Scotland – 11th May, 2018: A blundering medic sliced a baby's neck with scissors during a botched delivery and ignored the mother's pleas to stop, a tribunal has heard.

    Dr Vaishnavy Vilvanathan Laxman is said to have failed to provide pain relief to the woman giving birth and wrongly pressed ahead with a vaginal labor despite a number of complications which meant a caesarean delivery would have been safer. The baby boy died during childbirth.

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  • Doctor bought Jet, Maserati with money from unnecessary chemo treatments
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 12, 2018

    Texas, US – 18th May, 2018: The business of chemotherapy treatment for arthritis has been good to Jorge Zamora-Quezada.

    The Texas doctor took to the air on his six-seat Eclipse 500 business jet, bought with some of the $50 million he was paid since 2000 administering a host of treatments to countless patients.

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  • Doctor groped patient’s breasts when she went to see him about heart attack
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 18, 2018

    Stratford, UK – 30th April, 2018: The victim visited a walk-in clinic at the Sparkhill Primary Care and Community Centre in Birmingham in May 2016 fearing she had shown symptoms, and was seen by Dr Rajeshkumar Mehta who had been working there for a short time on an ad hoc basis.

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  • Doctor Guilty of Felony for Medical Malpractice
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 04, 2018

    Florida, US – 15th May, 2018: In perhaps one of the most egregious malpractice cases I have ever witnessed, Christopher Duntsch was convicted of a first-degree felony for harming an elderly woman in his operating room. A Dallas County jury took only a few hours to sentence him, and the former doctor is going to prison for life.

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  • 'Lessons must be learned from our son's death' say Callum Cartlidge's family
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 05, 2018

    Worcestershire, UK – 23rd May, 2018 The devastated parents of a boy who died hours after he was sent home from hospital, said they feel "badly let down" that opportunities were missed to prevent his death.

    A coroner ruled yesterday that Callum Cartlidge, who died on March 3, 2017, after suffering a cardiac arrest, was "failed” by hospital staff who discharged him without a blood test.

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  • Medical negligence: Patient ends up with damaged kidney
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 25, 2018

    Colombo, Sri Lanka – 5th May, 2018: Medical negligence at a private hospital located just outside Colombo has resulted in a young woman ending up with major complications, including a damaged kidney.

    The family of the 20 year old woman has accused the private hospital of failing in their duties resulting in their daughter having to suffer and the family having to pay a huge medical bill.

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  • Patient wakes up in hospital to find surgeon operated on wrong area despite big arrow on arm
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 01, 2018

    Yorkshire, UK – 23rd May, 2018: Phillip Ivory, 61, had been experiencing numbness in his fingers and underwent elective ulnar nerve decompression surgery to restore feeling in July last year.

    Yet despite marking Mr Ivory’s arm before he began the procedure at Castle Hill Hospital, in Hull, the surgeon made his incision on the outside area of the elbow, as opposed to the inner part where it should have been.

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  • Stage 4 cancer patient accuses Chilliwack doctor of missing diagnosis
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 21, 2018

    Chilliwack, Canada – 4th May, 2018: When Doug Hewer found a lump on his neck more than three years ago, he did what most people would: He called his family doctor to have a look.

    That doctor was Chilliwack’s Sean Cambridge who was in the news recently for being stripped of his provisional licence to practise. His wife and partner, Dr. Rosemary Cambridge, was also ordered to stop practising.

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  • Turkish cardiologist designs 'life-saving' portable blood pump
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 20, 2018

    Istanbul, Turkey – 2nd May, 2018: A Turkish researcher at Izmir Dokuz Eylül University has designed a portable blood pumping machine, which is expected to save the lives of people suffering from advanced cardiac or pulmonary insufficiency.

    Professor Erdem Silistreli, who has been a cardiologist for 28 years, designed the device together with his team of nine, following five years of intense research amid his tight hospital schedule.

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  • Wheeling law firm obtains $2 million verdict in medical malpractice case
    June - 2018, Posted ON June 08, 2018

    Pennsylvania, US – 17th May, 2018: Bordas & Bordas has obtained a $2 million verdicts in an Allegheny County medical malpractice case.

    The jury returned a $2 million verdict on Wednesday, May 16 in favor of Stanley and Marianne Truskie as a result of the death of their son, Mark, who died at the age of 46.

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