In Florida, patients filed hundreds of lawsuits against a surgeon who maimed people during operations

At least 522 lawsuits have been filed against the hospital and former orthopedic surgeon Dr. David Hickin. The doctor is accused of operating on patients with a progressive neurological disease, reports News4jax. The lawsuits allege that Hikin was allowed to operate on patients for many years...

Life-threatening: In 16 Indiana, students were given insulin instead of a tuberculosis test

On September 30, a group of Indiana high school students found themselves in the hospital after teenagers were mistakenly injected with insulin during a tuberculosis skin test at their local high school. A healthy person is strongly discouraged from administering insulin: it can be very ...

Due to medical error, a couple from New Jersey had a daughter of a different race

An American woman from New Jersey and her husband, both Caucasian and white, unexpectedly gave birth to an Asian girl. A couple filed a lawsuit against a clinic where a woman underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) after it turned out that doctors mistakenly used...

A surgeon from Florida accidentally deleted a kidney and got off with a minimum fine.

A West Palm Beach, Florida-based surgeon agreed to pay a $ 3000 fine to remove a healthy kidney from a woman he believed to be a tumor, according to the State Medical Council. Surgeon Ramon Vazquez decided to perform surgery on Morin Pacheco's patient in 2016. He was…

A resident of Miami was taken over a trainer and put in a men's cell.

A federal judge in Florida last month reopened a lawsuit filed by an American mother and grandmother who was mistaken for a transgender man in prison, leaving her behind bars for about 10 hours with 40 male inmates who ...

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