Doctor Malpractice In The News

Don Quixote: Two-term state Senator Don Perata is so confident that his pal, Attorney General Bill Lockyer , will green-light his proposed reelection bid that he's begun trolling his donor list to contribute to his "Perata 2004" campaign.

Dr. Robert C. Raynor was honored at the Nov. 7 Governor football game for 50 years of service to Nelson County High School athletes. Dr. Raynor has performed yearly physicals for athletes as well as been on the sideline of at least one football game for 50 years. He recently retired from Afton Family Medicine, but continues to serve two local nursing homes as the medical director.

When Dr. Rodolfo Walss placed an advertisement in the phone book, he had no idea he'd end up with a $500 fine and publicity he wish he'd never received.

Family doctors are are increasingly leaving the field and fewer young doctors are replacing them, making it harder for patients who are in the market for a new doctor to find one. What you can do:

Motivated by the mystery of a nightmare clinical scenario, scientists studying how anesthesia affects the brain are now opening a window to the source of human consciousness.

Earlier this month, News Channel 3 reported about a doctor accused of blinding a Southland woman during eye surgery. That doctor may now lose her license.

A Marietta doctor facing 42 years in prison on drug trafficking charges filed a lawsuit Wednesday against local and state law enforcement agents, alleging they improperly took his medical license. The suit, filed by Dr. Pedrito Galupo, seeks more than $3.

THE Australian newspaper last night claimed three prestigious Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism.

A Henderson physician whose license to prescribe controlled substances was yanked by state authorities has abruptly sold his business, leaving his 1,500 patients in the hands of a new medical group.

The prestigious National Press Club in Washington, DC provided the backdrop as a "growing coalition (of anti-corruption advocates attested) to serious abuses of government and corporate power" says Chief Deputy U.S.