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The video, which shows the civil surgeon kissing a woman, first surfaced on a WhatsApp group of the nursing staff of the Ujjain district hospital. HIGHLIGHTS He has been removed
A male nurse pulled so hard that the foetus is said to have broken in two pieces The mother is now fighting for her life at a different hospital in
For the third consecutive year, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, claimed the number one spot in the annual honor roll of best hospitals published by US News and World Report.
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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
Screenshot: Google/HealthPlus Surgery Center Over 3,000 patients at a New Jersey surgical center may have been exposed to bloodborne pathogens after investigators found the facility wasn’t properly following sterilization guidelines
UK hospitals adopting barn theatre approach to improve outcomes Operating theatre design has remained largely unchanged for decades, but more recently a new architectural approach is beginning to take hold.
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
A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching
Continue ReadingSurgery students ‘losing dexterity to stitch patients’
John Sarcona was at a baseball game when his mother Joanne found the bloodied T-shirts in his laundry hamper. His bedding was bloody too, and she knew something had gone
Continue ReadingDying from scoliosis, ‘bending by the hour’ – 18th Surgery that changed his life
Children in the hospital can now swap wheelchairs for four wheels and drive themselves to surgery in mini motorized cars. The motorized vehicles are being used at a hospital in Leicester
Continue ReadingHospital lets kids ‘drive’ to surgery with motorized car
The College of Nursing and Health Professions is pleased to introduce a series of articles authored by Paul Thomas Clements, who will share his expertise on topics such as workplace
Continue ReadingWORKPLACE BULLYING IN THE HEALTH CARE SETTING
A second British woman has died after undergoing “Brazilian butt lift” surgery, it emerged today. The woman, aged in her late 20s, died following the cosmetic procedure earlier this year. It
Continue ReadingSecond British woman dies after ‘Brazilian butt lift’ surgery
A Canadian surgeon became the talk of the Internet after he performed an operation without the use of anaesthetic – on his patient’s ripped teddy bear. Dr Daniel McNeely, a
Continue ReadingSurgeon in Canada operates on 8-year-old boy’s teddy bear
Madera Community Hospital has been fined by the state for a surgery on the wrong side of the body of a patient that led to a delay in the targeted
Continue ReadingCancer surgery was on wrong side of colon. State fines Madera hospital for the error
“I think it’s a great advancement for minimally invasive surgery.” said Dr. Greg Marchand, the lead surgeon. MESA, AZ, USA — Dr. Greg J. Marchand of Marchand Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery has
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Using two tiny mechanical claws, community members tested out Skagit Regional Health’s new robotic surgery system by unwrapping Starburst candies and moving around mini-rubber rings.
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Several St. Boniface Hospital operating rooms are closed after a malfunction in the facility’s air handling system. Patients with scheduled procedures will be affected for the rest of the week
Continue ReadingFaulty air system forces operating room closures at St. Boniface Hospital
Denis Cesar Barros Furtado went on the run when one of his female patients died after he gave her injections to enlarge her buttocks. POLICE ARRESTED CELEBRITY plastic surgeon Denis
Continue ReadingBrazilian police arrest ‘celebrity’ surgeon after patient’s death
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. Officials at Vermont’s Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center say three operating rooms have reopened after a sprinkler burst late last month, causing water damage. The
By Mike Hanlon “Scalpel please! ” is a sentence that might in future not only be heard in a hospital operating theatre, but also in one of the three new,
Continue ReadingThe world’s largest ambulance (and the world’s smallest X-ray unit)
Dr. Alex Barazovsky leaves note blaming Israel Medical Association for his decision to take his own life, citing a feud over intern training By TOI STAFF A top plastic surgeon
Continue ReadingSenior plastic surgeon kills himself in Soroka operating room
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
Continue ReadingBone fragment stuck to surgical tool provided early clue to hospital’s cleaning woes
Dr Victoria Hunter was treating a patient when Steven Cook, 41, barged in By Rob Pattinson A SON who believed his late dad was misdiagnosed burst into a surgery and
By Steve Bird An NHS surgeon who kept his HIV infection secret because he feared he would be stigmatised triggered a nationwide search for people he may have contaminated, a court
Continue ReadingNHS surgeon hid his HIV status sparking nationwide alert
BY SARAH BLASKEY, SONIA OSORIO AND DANIEL CHANG For Adianet Galván Gonzáles and her circle of family and friends, the popular surgical procedure known as a Brazilian butt lift was
Continue ReadingShe dreamed of getting plastic surgery in Miami. Three days later, she was dead.
Everyone wants to get you home safe and keep you healthy, but sometimes going home is a bad option.It’s in the medical team’s best interest to discharge you when you’re
Continue Reading10 Signs the Hospital Wants to Discharge You Too Early—and How to Fight It
By Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Jerri Plummer was at home in Arkansas, watching television with her three children, when a stranger called to warn that her life was in danger. The caller
Continue ReadingHow Profiteers Coax Women Into Often-Unneeded Surgery
By Steve Sternberg Army surgeon Maj. Monique Hassan’s life was an adventure. All that was missing was the surgery. MAJ. MONIQUE HASSAN’S stint as an Army surgeon was a halting journey of
A Brazilian woman born without a vagina has been the first in the world to receive a life-changing constructive treatment involving the skin of tilapia fish. Student Jucilene Marinho, 23,
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
Continue ReadingGeorgia Surgeon Accused of Dancing with Twerking Nurses During Operations