Tag Legal Issues in Surgery

Experts who were supposed to assist surgeons carrying out the first robotic heart valve operation of its kind in the UK left the hospital theatre before the procedure was finished

Continue ReadingRobotic surgery experts left theatre before end of heart op at Freeman Hospital, inquest hears.

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

Continue ReadingDoctor wrongly removes woman’s healthy KIDNEY during routine back surgery after mistaking the organ for a cancerous tumor

Dena Knapp went to Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D., to have an adrenal gland and associated mass removed. Instead, according to a lawsuit, Dr. Scott Baker removed her

Continue ReadingWoman says surgeon removed kidney by mistake in botched operation

By Marty Sharpe An orthopaedic surgeon who forged prescriptions for himself and his wife was a “danger to the public” according to the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, which fined him $19,000.

Continue ReadingSurgeon who forged signature to obtain nearly 2000 pills is a ‘danger to the public’

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

Continue ReadingSurgeon Sentenced to Life in Prison for Overdose Death