Hospital Malpractice In The News

ASHLAND -- KDMC obstetrician/gynecologist Brian Frederick, M.D., and urologist Timothy Dixon, M.D., have earned a special designation by Intuitive Surgical for their accomplishments associated with the use of the da Vinci Surgical System. Intuitive lists on the Web site the names of the physicians who have completed a recommended number of da Vinci cases in the past year, resulting in positive ..

A woman sues doctors after complications from kidney stones lead to amputations.

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.

ALGONQUIN – An investigation into the drownings of three Chicago high school students on the Fox River will continue into next week, said spokewomen for the McHenry County Conservation District Police and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

A woman who entered a New York hospital with what she thought was a kidney stone and left a quadruple amputee has filed a multi-million dollar malpractice suit.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) on Wednesday announced that he has extended through June 30, 2009, an executive order that allows the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council to continue operating, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

The family of a 35-year-old man who died after getting a heart pacemaker won a $4.6 million medical malpractice verdict against three doctors involved in the surgery at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.

A woman who entered a New York hospital with what she thought was a kidney stone, left a quadruple amputee.

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.

GALESBURG -- Louis Goldstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Education, will speak at the Knox Talks luncheon series at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, August 14, in the Lincoln Room, Seymour Union, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois.