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1. An Australian teen fractured her thumb. Doctors botched the surgery and replaced it with her big toe

Author

Shepherd, Katie

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Sports injuries -- Care and treatment, Thumb -- Care and treatment, Medical malpractice -- Investigations, Surgery, Physicians, Medical centers, Youth, Cricket (Sport), General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Katie Shepherd After Britney Thomas, a 17-year-old Australian cricket player, fractured her thumb during a game, doctors in April 2018 reassured her that a simple surgery and a short [...]

Published
2019

2. The abominable Dr Patel

Author

Davies, Julie-Anne

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Surgeons -- Investigations, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Dr. Jayant Patel's medical incompetence as a surgeon in Bundaberg Base Hospital resulted in a medical negligence scandal in Australia. A clinical audit carried out by Queensland Health revealed that Dr. Patel had a complication rate 30% above the average and was performing medical procedures that should not be attempted in a regional hospital.

Published
2005

4. Surgeries at centers lead to tragic results

Author

Kaiser, Christina Jewett

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Wrongful death -- Investigations, Surgical clinics -- Investigations, Company legal issue, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Christina Jewett Kaiser Health News, and Mark Alesia Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK The first man died in April 2014. Another died later that month. Then on July 18 [...]

Published
2018

5. Navy Is Investigating Murtha's Surgery

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Legislators -- Death of, Company legal issue, Political science
Abstract

The Nat'l Naval Medical Center 'has opened a review of the surgical care provided' to the late Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), who died 2/8 following a 'routine' gallbladder surgery 1/31 [...]

Published
2010

6. Her surgery was supposed to be routine. Instead, this Russian woman was 'embalmed alive.'

Author

Bever, Lindsey

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Lindsey Bever It was supposed to be a simple procedure. Relatives said 28-year-old Ekaterina Fedyaeva had been diagnosed with ovarian cysts -- a condition in which fluid-filled sacs attach [...]

Published
2018

7. Competence, professional self regulation, and the public interest

Author

Klein, Rudolf

Subjects
General Medical Council -- Investigations -- Evaluation, Evaluation, Investigations, Company legal issue, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Medical professions -- Evaluation -- Investigations, Physicians -- Evaluation -- Investigations
Abstract

The case of the three doctors in Bristol represents a landmark in the history of the self regulation of the medical profession in the United Kingdom in terms of its [...]

Published
1998

8. Doctors started brain surgery -- then realized they were operating on the wrong patient

Author

Bever, Lindsey

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Executives -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Medical personnel -- Practice -- Discipline -- Investigations, Company legal issue, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Lindsey Bever A neurosurgeon and medical team opened a patient's skull last month to remove a blood clot in the brain and came to a startling discovery: There wasn't [...]

Published
2018

9. Ontario launches review of pathology reports

Author

Priest, Lisa and Boesveld, Sarah

Subjects
Surgical errors -- Investigations, Mastectomy -- Social aspects, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: LISA PRIEST AND SARAH BOESVELD SURGERY / MASTECTOMY ERRORS When Janice LaPorte was called to her breast cancer surgeon's office at 8 a.m. a week after her mastectomy in [...]

Published
2010

10. Dr. Whistleblower

Author

Meier, Barry and Wilson, Duff

Subjects
United States. Army. Walter Reed Army Medical Center -- Officials and employees -- Investigations, Practice, Officials and employees, Investigations, Company legal issue, Surgical errors -- Investigations
Abstract

Dr. Romney C. Andersen, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center surgeon, was surprised last summer when his neighbor, a fellow doctor, congratulated him on a new medical journal study bearing [...]

Published
2009

14. Hospital faces fine in death of liver donor

Author

Grady, Denise

Subjects
Company legal issue, Mount Sinai Medical Center -- Discipline -- Investigations, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Hospitals -- Discipline -- New York
Abstract

Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan will be fined and subjected to other enforcement action by the state for its treatment of a patient who died on Jan. 13, three days […]

Published
2002

15. Swiss hospital investigates heart transplant 'experiment': the death of a Swiss woman following a transplant operation in which she was given a mismatched heart has forced a Zurich hospital to suspend all transplant services--and launch an investigation into newspaper claims that the operation was a 'medical experiment'

Author

Pancevski, Bojan

Subjects
Hospitals -- Investigations, Hospitals -- Switzerland, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Heart -- Transplantation, Heart -- Patient outcomes, Heart -- Investigations, Company legal issue
Published
2005

17. Bundaberg hospital inquiry

Subjects
Investigations, Company legal issue, Hospitals -- Queensland -- Investigations, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Physicians -- Investigations
Abstract

An inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the employment of disgraced doctor Jayant Patel in Bundaberg, Queensland, has heard the doctor could be responsible for the deaths of over 80 patients [...]

Published
2005

18. Who killed Cock Robin?

Author

Delamothe, Tony

Subjects
Ethical aspects, Patient outcomes, Investigations, Company legal issue, Mortality -- Investigations, Whistleblowing -- Ethical aspects -- Investigations, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Sick children -- Patient outcomes -- Ethical aspects, Whistle blowing -- Ethical aspects -- Investigations
Abstract

Recently, pages of newsprint have been filled with heartrending tales of families who lost babies under the knife of the Bristol surgeons. This week's Panorama, the subject of an unsuccessful [...]

Published
1998

19. Put out the fire or risk an inferno

Author

Rubin, Peter

Subjects
Investigations, Company legal issue, Surgical errors -- Investigations
Abstract

Two things struck me about this account. One was that the author thought there was something wrong but no one seemed to care. The other was that, on the evidence [...]

Published
1998

20. Israeli man dies after being transplanted with lung of wrong blood type

Subjects
Investigations, Company legal issue, Surgical errors -- Investigations, Blood transfusion -- Investigations, Lung transplantation -- Investigations, Lungs -- Transplantation
Abstract

A 66-year-old man died at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva after receiving a lung transplant that was the wrong blood type. According to the initial investigation by the hospital and [...]

Published
2004

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