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Patient’s relatives attack doctor for refusing to break hospital rules
December 26, 2018
Najran, Saudi Arabia – 26th December, 2018: A female doctor of an Arab nationality was attacked by relatives of a patient because she refused to violate the hospital rules.
No ‘justification’ for attacks on medical personnel — ministry
December 24, 2018
Amman, Jordan – 24th December, 2018: Health Minister Ghazi Zaben on Sunday stressed that the ministry “will not be lenient” in prosecuting the perpetrators who attacked a doctor while he was on duty, according to a ministry statement sent to The Jordan Times.
‘They could have saved her’ Heartbroken mum of meningitis baby who died after doctors sent her home
December 23, 2018
Edinburgh, UK – 23rd December, 2018: A premature baby who died of meningitis less than a day after being sent home from hospital could have been saved, senior doctors have confirmed.
Family of woman who died in Texas jail files wrongful death lawsuit
December 22, 2018
Texas, US – 22nd December, 2018: The family of a woman who died after being held for five months in a Texas jail has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, according to attorney Les Sachanowicz.
Doctor cleared in Jackson negligence lawsuit
December 21, 2018
Wyoming, US – 21st December, 2018: Twelve jurors cleared anesthesiologist Dave Tomlinson of negligence charges after an eight-day trial in Teton County District Court. Jurors deliberated for about 2 1/2 hours before coming to their decision.
Trinidad: Husband claims wife’s death after giving birth due to hospital’s negligence
December 19, 2018
Trinidad – 19th December, 2018: The grieving common-law husband of 26-year-old Maquader Martin wants answers before his wife is laid to rest.
Doctors Assaulted At Greystone In ‘Atmosphere Of Terror’: Lawsuit
December 19, 2018
New Jersey, US – 19th December, 2018: An "atmosphere of terror and retaliation" has led to serious assaults and several deaths at Greystone Psychiatric Park in recent years, according to a blistering lawsuit filed against the state by the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender.
Review underway as Crumlin Hospital apologises to woman told she didn’t have cancer gene
December 17, 2018
UK – 17th December, 2018: The UK hospital which carried out testing on an Irish woman for cancer gene BRCA1 said the woman tested positive for the gene – and they passed on this information to her doctors in Crumlin.
84-year-old veteran died after nursing home staff ignored his infected, rotting genitals
December 14, 2018
Florida, US – 14th December, 2018: An 84-year-old U.S. Army veteran’s pressing medical needs were blatantly ignored by a Jacksonville, Florida, nursing home staff last year — and he died shortly after.
Florida family sues hospital for ‘causing father to overdose after a back surgery’
December 12, 2018
Florida, US – 12th December, 2018: A Florida doctor may never be able to walk or breathe on his own after his family claims medical staffers — at the very hospital he served for more than 30 years — gave him a lethal dose of a painkiller called Dilaudid.
