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  • 'Butcher' doctor slammed by furious former patients
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 24, 2018

    New South Wales, Australia – 26th June, 2018: For a place where they went for help, too many women have left Manning Base Hospital in more pain than when they arrived.

    They’re all hurting in different ways, but their suffering was caused by the same man. His name is Dr Emil Shawky Gayed.

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  • Health MEC: Soon Doctors & Nurses will be accountable for medical negligence
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 22, 2018

    Johannesburg, South Africa – 13th July, 2018: While Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa says her department has established legal ways to hold health workers personally liable for medical negligence, National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) has told Eyewitness News it is prepared to fight this and protect its members.

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  • Health network denies liability in fertility clinic lawsuits
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 18, 2018

    Cleveland, US – 5th July, 2018: A health care network responding to lawsuits says it wasn't liable for a storage tank malfunction that destroyed more than 4,000 eggs and embryos at its fertility clinic near Cleveland.

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  • Huntersville cosmetic surgeon sanctioned by NC medical board
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 07, 2018

    North Carolina, US – 27th July, 2018: A Huntersville cosmetic surgeon is still allowed to perform surgeries even though the medical board punished him saying he gave patients potentially dangerous levels of anesthesia.

    The North Carolina medical board reprimanded the owner of Pure Med Spa for that and concerns over how he handled a patient’s death certificate after she died in his office.

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  • Medical negligence: Ridge Hospital surgery left patient with protruding abdomen
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 03, 2018

    Ghana – 18th June, 2018: A 22-year-old man is the latest person to level allegations of medical negligence against the Greater Accra Regional Hospital popularly known as Ridge Hospital.

    According to Harrison Besanya, the negligence of the health authorities at the facility has left him with a protruding and rotten abdomen following a surgery six months ago for appendicitis.

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  • Nearly $4.7 billion awarded in Johnson & Johnson baby powder lawsuit
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 20, 2018

    St. Louis, US – 16th July, 2018: A St Louis jury in the US today awarded nearly USD 4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer in the first case against the company that focused on asbestos in the powder.

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  • NHS app will let patients make doctor's appointments, order repeat prescriptions
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 11, 2018

    England – 3rd July, 2018: The NHS hopes to cut down the queue of morning calls to local GPs around England with its new app.

    The app, which launches in England in December, will allow patients to make appointments, order repeat prescriptions, manage any long-term conditions they might have and access its 111 helpline online.

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  • Physicians call for harsh penalty on patient who attacked ER doctor
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 16, 2018

    North Jeolla, South Korea – 5th July, 2018: The medical community is expressing shock and rage over a patient’s assault on an emergency room (ER) doctor in Iksan, North Jeolla Province.

    At Iksan Hospital’s ER at about 10 p.m. on Sunday, the drunk patient attacked the physician, surnamed Lee, who was the head of the emergency medicine department.

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  • Rio police arrest plastic surgeon 'Dr BumBum' over patient's death
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 09, 2018

    Rio De Janeiro, Brazil – 20th July, 2018: Police in Rio de Janeiro have arrested a celebrity plastic surgeon, known as “Dr Bumbum” along with his mother in connection with murder after one of his patients died following a surgical procedure conducted in his apartment on Saturday.

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  • Trial Begins Against Georgia Doctor Accused of Fault for Patient's Deadly Heart Attack
    August - 2018, Posted ON August 14, 2018

    Georgia, US – 11th July, 2018: Trial opened Tuesday over whether a doctor bears responsibility for the ultimately fatal heart attack a patient suffered after being disconnected from heart monitoring equipment at a Georgia hospital. 

    According to the case's pre-trial order, Laura Herrington, 75, suffered a heart attack overnight on May 9-10, 2014, hours after allegedly being taken off of heart telemetry, or monitoring equipment, at Snellville’s Eastside Medical Center.

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