A visit to a cardiologist in San Bernardino sparked a heated confrontation—an argument between the doctor and his patient's family. The patient's family said the cardiologist attacked them because the patient asked if the doctor spoke Spanish. “I'm shocked. Yeah. I can't...
The doctor thinks the patient set her up. In Tennessee, a doctor was accused of borrowing money from an elderly patient, and then declared her to be feeble-minded so as not to pay the debt. The Tennessean newspaper reports. The disciplinary body overseeing the activities of health care workers ...
If not everyone, then many, have heard about homeopathy, about telemedicine too, but what will happen if you combine alternative science with the possibility of remote consultations? This is exactly what William Edwin Gray, a practitioner of homeopathy in California, USA, did. He sold "drugs" in the form of audio recordings, which were needed ...
Maria Zapata went to see Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quesada just over five years ago due to knee pain. The rheumatologist told the woman that she had arthritis and that he would give her injections to "strengthen the cartilage" in her knee. When asked by the patient's husband about ...
He doesn't have a chip in his head, but a mirror-touch synesthesia. US physician Joel Salinas has synesthesia and literally feels the pain of patients. His story is told by TJournal. Synesthesia instead of a chip in the head Joel Salinas has no implants, ...
A Brooklyn federal judge, before sentencing a Russian-speaking medical assistant, called medical fraud schemes a "terrible problem" in the Eastern District of New York. Yuri Omelchenko previously pleaded guilty to working as an unlicensed physiotherapist and therapist, providing unnecessary "treatment" ...
In Atlanta, city police are looking for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 35-year-old Timothy Jerrell Cunningham, who left work early 11 days ago after complaining of poor health. Writes about this NBC. The man worked as a chief in the response group of the Officer Corps ...
After an unusual 7-day hearing in which more than 150 young women spoke out openly about the sexual assault committed by Dr. Lawrence Nassar, a former member of the American national gymnastics team, the judge sentenced him Wednesday to 175 years in prison, with the possibility of petition ...
A famous Manhattan surgeon was found dead with a knife in his chest in the bathroom of his Upper East Side apartment on December 10, his body was found by his 11-year-old daughter. Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, rose to fame after healed U2 frontman Bono after ...
According to a police detective, the mother refused to seek medical help for her newborn daughter even after the midwife warned about the dangers of not treating jaundice, writes USA Today. "God doesn't make mistakes," Rachel Piland told the midwife, according to police testimony...