Five-year-old girl died due to a misdiagnosis

In England, the causes of death of a five-year-old girl Elspeth Moore are being investigated. Investigators believe that the doctor misdiagnosed appendicitis, which was caused by viral gastroenteritis, writes FOX News. Moore died a few days after she was first taken to the Children's Hospital ...

Doctors mistakenly removed both kidneys to the patient and deprived her of life

A Colorado resident died due to a medical error. The woman was misdiagnosed with the disease and had two kidneys removed. Linda Woolley, 73, from Englewood, was admitted to hospital in March 2018 with suspected cancer. In May, the woman underwent surgery and had two kidneys removed. Only…

In Israel, doctors with leeches saved a severed ear

A man injured in an industrial accident was saved thanks to unconventional treatment methods. Doctors at Hillel Yafe Hospital in Hadera reattached a patient's ear, which was almost completely torn off in an industrial accident. And in order to avoid tissue necrosis and ensure...

Personal experience. How is the heart surgery in the US

Let me make a reservation right away that I am not a doctor and I have absolutely no idea how the same operations are carried out in our country - perhaps in exactly the same way. But I was deeply struck by the fact that the heart surgery took place in the morning, and the next morning...

New Jersey family was able to sue $ 13 million for a failed mother’s operation

A New Jersey mother still cares for her husband and children - seven years after she died following a failed surgery at a Manhattan hospital. Housewife Cheryl Rafsky was 43 when a benign polyp was removed in November 2011 ...

As a doctor from Baku, she was able to return to medicine in America

When Nargiz Muganlinskaya first moved to the United States, it seemed to her that she shouldn’t have left at all, that it would be much easier to realize herself in her own country. Many people in her profession - doctors - are never able to return to medicine in America. Somebody…

American blames clinic for accidental kidney removal

Dena Knapp of Milford, Iowa, has sued a South Dakota surgeon and his employer for having lost a healthy kidney due to medical error, writes Buzzfeed news. The complaint says that Dr. Scott Baker is from town ...

Doctors and hospitals in the US are increasingly suing patients because of negative feedback.

Retired US Air Force Colonel David Antun agreed to pay $ 100 to settle a lawsuit against him for writing comments on the Internet criticizing the work of doctors, and also published a list of urological procedures that he went through 10 years ago and ...

Immigrant doctors who treat people in the American backwoods are tired of waiting for the green card.

Dr. Raghuveer Kura is the only nephrologist to treat people in Poplar Bluff, Missouri for the past 9 years. He treats almost 3 thousand patients, of which 80 need dialysis procedures, writes CNN Money. “Some of my patients take an hour to get ...

Nurse accused of killing her own son with drugs stolen in hospital

In the state of Missouri in the city of Bolivar, 41-year-old Daniel Baker is accused of killing his own 14-year-old son, who received a lethal injection of drugs stolen from the hospital, writes the Daily Mail. Law enforcers found a bottle of morphine sulfate with a label that indicated Baker's place of work. ...

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