Archives April 2018

Surgeon mistakes ovary, Fallopian tube for appendix, says poor vision responsible!

A senior surgeon with “poor vision” accidentally removed a woman’s ovary instead of her appendix and then told bosses it was a “trifling error.” The United Kingdom resident doctor of

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Turning any room into an operating room

With a product called SurgiBox, grad student Sally Miller hopes to make safe, clean surgery possible anywhere. By Mary B. O’Leary Dust, dirt, bacteria, flies — these are just some

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Patient dies as plastic surgeon takes selfie with her bare breasts

By Georgia Diebelius A patient of Moscow’s selfie-taking plastic surgeon has died after undergoing breast lift surgery. Mother of two Ekaterina Kiseleva, 32, was pronounced dead in the clinic from heart failure,

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Johns Hopkins performs world’s first ‘total’ penis transplant, on veteran wounded by IED blast

By Andrea K. McDaniels Johns Hopkins surgeons performed the most complex penis transplant ever in late March on a soldier who lost his genitals during a bomb blast in Afghanistan. Over

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Patient dies after operating table collapses during surgery

By Lata Rani Patna: A major government hospital in India’s Bihar state has come under fire again after a woman died of injuries sustained when the table she was being

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Woman dies after being given formaldehyde instead of saline drip during routine surgery

By Alex Lasker A Russian woman tragically died after she was administered embalming fluids instead of saline during a routine surgery, according to reports. Ekaterina Fedyaeva, 27, was undergoing a

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