Medication errors can occur throughout the medication-use system. Such as, when prescribing a drug, upon entering information into a computer system, when the drug is being prepared or dispensed, or when the drug is given to or taken by a patient…. …
The husband of a British woman who died after liposuction surgery in Turkey is warning others over the risks of health tourism. A postmortem found Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose died from peritonitis and multi-organ failure after complications from liposuction…
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A number of these incidents are of the hit-or-miss variety, where the doctor realizes that they’re not going after the target area before any real damage has been done…
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A 72-year-old woman has suffered burns after a fire ignited while she was undergoing a procedure in a Sunshine Hospital surgical theatre. The blaze began when medical equipment malfunctioned just
A patient at a southern New Jersey hospital inadvertently got a transplanted kidney that was intended for another patient, officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The 51-year-old patient was on the transplant list
A woman who was told her brother wouldn’t “make it” after a drug overdose ordered a stranger be taken off life support in a mix-up at a Bronx hospital, a lawsuit alleges.
Bacterial swabs of privacy curtains at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg found they all harboured the hospital superbug MRSA at some point over a 21-day period (stock image) Canadian
Smoke rose in curls of green laser light, quickly filling the mock operating room and fogging the air around a mannequin patient. Dr. Scott Augustine, a controversial medical entrepreneur and
Critically ill patients were having urgent, lifesaving operations when a leak in the floor above operating rooms sprung, sending water into the surgical suites. Surgeons halted one case while others
Maureen Pacheco, 53, of Florida, had suffered lower back pain for years after a car accident She went to Wellington Regional Medical Center to have lower back bones fused After
By John Commins Florida spine surgeon Johnny Clyde Benjamin, 52, used his Vero Beach office to manufacture counterfeit oxycodone, which was traced to the overdose death of a Palm Beach
Surgical Errors Are More Common Than Many Realize Surgical errors and mistakes injure and kill thousands of patients every year, ranging from cases where surgical instruments, sponges and needles were
By John Ingold Officials at Porter Adventist Hospital first learned of possible trouble with its processes for cleaning surgical instruments as early as last April, when a doctor in the
A plastic surgeon in Georgia is now being put under a microscope after allegedly putting patients under the knife with music blaring … and her body groovin’. Give Boutte THE Boot
By Kathleen McGrory, Neil Bedi Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital broke Florida law by failing to tell regulators about two serious medical errors, according to a state report. The report,
By Jared Sichel The Department of Veteran Affairs isn’t just in need of more doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. Someone over there needs to call an exterminator — right now.
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
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
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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