Wisconsin, US – 31st January, 2019: University of Wisconsin plastic surgeon John Siebert is being sued for medical malpractice in Dane County District Court by a patient for sexual exploitation and medical negligence. 

Vietnam – 31st January, 2019: The target is part of a recently approved plan to prevent crimes and violations at medical facilities between 2019 and 2020 in response to recent cases in which medical workers were reportedly assaulted in the workplace by patients and relatives of patients.

Egypt – 30th January, 2019: Seven people died in Egypt’s prisons due to medical negligence in January alone, the New Khaleejhas reported, highlighting the plight of the thousands jailed by the Egyptian authorities.

Pennsylvania, US – 29th January, 2019: A plague of medical malpractice lawsuits had Pennsylvania’s health care system needing life support in the early 2000s, at least in the view of hospitals and doctors.

Boston, US – 29th January, 2019: An India-born onetime billionaire and founder of a drug company went on trial in the US along with four others on charges of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to lure them into prescribing a highly addictive opioid painkiller meant solely for cancer patients. 

 

UK – 26th January, 2019:  A woman who will never become a mum is suing the NHS after doctors removed her womb following a cancer blunder.

UK – 26th January, 2019:  A woman who will never become a mum is suing the NHS after doctors removed her womb following a cancer blunder.

Vietnam – 24th January, 2019:  The moves comes after an agreement was reached yesterday by the health ministry’s Medical Examination and Treatment Department and the public security ministry’s Police Department of Administration and Social Security.

Brussels – 21st January, 2019:  A Dutch surgeon formally disciplined for her medical negligence has won a legal action to remove Google search results about her case in a landmark “right to be forgotten” ruling.

UK – 20th January, 2019:  Nervous first-time mum Kelly Angelo thought she was in good hands when she arrived at a birthing centre run by ­midwives – rather than a hospital.