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  • ‘Cover up’ claim after trust stays silent on what it did about misdiagnosis doctor
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 10, 2019

    Belfast, Northern Ireland – 10th April, 2019: The Southern Trust has come under fire for its refusal to reveal whether it ever referred the doctor in question to the General Medical Council (GMC).

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  • ‘Pill mill’ doctor who lost license three times is sentenced to seven years in prison
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 26, 2019

    Alexandria, US – 26th April, 2019: A doctor with a history of misconduct who lost his medical license three times was sentenced to seven years in prison Friday for running a clinic that prescribed opioids with little evaluation or oversight.

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  • Astria Health facing wrongful death, medical malpractice lawsuit
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 15, 2019

    Washington, US – 15th April, 2019: Two years after 29-year-old Stephanie Larkin died following her treatment at then-Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center, her family is suing the company that now owns the hospital for wrongful death and medical malpractice. 

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  • Del. Supreme Court Overrules Precedent in Medical Negligence Case
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 19, 2019

    Delaware, US – 19th April, 2019: The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that negligence claims against employees tossed out as filed too late do not automatically absolve their employers of all liability, in a decision overturning its own 26-year-old precedent.

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  • Drug-maker payments to doctors may influence choice of what drugs to prescribe
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 14, 2019

    Middlesboro, US – 14th April, 2019: If your doctor is prescribing an expensive drug, you might want to consider alternatives, and check to see if the physician has been taking money from the company that makes the drug, Trudy Lieberman of Rural Health News Service suggests in her latest column. As she often does, Liberman tells the story through a patient, a 94-year-old Indiana woman “who is rapidly spending down her minimal savings to pay for prescription drugs,” according to her daughter, Peggy, who wrote to Lieberman.

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  • Emergency alarms, exits must be installed at hospitals
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 04, 2019

    Korea – 4th April, 2019: The government has ordered all medical institutions over a certain size and psychiatric hospitals to install emergency alarms and exits, and hire private security, to create a safe healthcare environment amid an increasing number of attacks by patients on medical workers, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said Thursday.

     

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  • Medical negligence biggest contributor to injuries, deaths
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 15, 2019

    Nairobi, Kenya – 15th April, 2019: Early this year, the High Court ordered two hospitals in Nairobi to compensate two patients for negligence on brain surgery and a perforated uterus.

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  • Medical negligence: Toddler passes away at Karachi hospital
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 23, 2019

    Karachi, Pakistan – 23rd April, 2019: A nine-month-old girl—who suffered brain damage after allegedly being administered an excessive quantity of an injection at a private hospital in Karachi—passed away on Monday.

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  • Moultonborough man sues hospital over 45-year-old wife's death from blood clot in lungs
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 17, 2019

    New Hampshire, US – 17th April, 2019: A Moultonborough man has filed a medical malpractice suit claiming his 45-year-old wife died because health care providers allegedly failed to recognize that her complaints of a persistent cough and shortness of breath were symptoms of a blood clot in her lung.

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  • Neurosurgeon and NUH sued for alleged ‘medical negligence’
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 17, 2019

    Singapore – 17th April, 2019: A neurosurgeon from the National University Hospital was sued after his patient fell into a vegatative state five years ago in 2014, after a brain operation.

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  • Northern Ireland doctor might not have read medical notes before wrong diagnosis of man who later died
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 03, 2019

    Northern Ireland, UK – 3rd April, 2019: A doctor who was allowed to "circumvent" the system to become a consultant in a hospital in Northern Ireland "almost overnight" admitted at a patient's inquest he may not even have read the man's notes before wrongly diagnosing him.

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  • PMDC cracks down on doctors’ negligence
    April - 2019, Posted ON April 23, 2019

    Islamabad, Pakistan – 23rd April, 2019: In a long-awaited crackdown on medical negligence, the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has cancelled the licences of two medical doctors for preparing false postmortem reports and ordered the start of criminal proceedings against them.

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