Caution: remove false teeth before surgery

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:07:56 +0000

PARIS–This is the story of a 72-year old retired electrician in Britain — let’s call him “Jack” — who forgot to tell his surgeon that he wore dentures. Anyone reading this account of what happened next is unlikely to make the same mistake. Six days after having a benign lump removed from his belly while […]

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Conjoined Bangladeshi twins stable after separation—doctors

Credit to Author: nguno| Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:37:54 +0000

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Conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated last week are in a stable condition, the team of Hungarian and Bangladeshi doctors who carried out the marathon operation said Saturday. Three-year-old Rabeya and Rukaya who were joined at the head suffered from a rare embryological disorder affecting an estimated one in every five to six million births. […]

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Surgeon slapped with $3,000 fine for accidentally removing patient’s kidney

Credit to Author: ccepeda| Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:07:55 +0000

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A surgeon from Florida, United States has to pay a fine of $3,000 dollars (around P156,000) after he mistakenly removed a patient’s kidney, thinking it was a cancerous mass. The fine was just one among other penalties Dr. Ramon Vazquez has to comply with, including giving a one-hour lecture on wrong-site surgery to a hospital’s […]

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Hospital ‘deeply sorry’ after doctors castrate toddler in botched surgery

Credit to Author: kmatriano| Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:11:31 +0000

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University Hospitals Bristol said they were “deeply sorry” following a botched operation that left a two-year-old boy castrated.

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