Florida, US – 28th September, 2015: A state appeals court Thursday sided with two South Florida hospitals in a medical-malpractice case involving a child who suffered brain damage after needing emergency care in 2008.

Massachusetts, US – 8th May, 2015: A jury in Dedham awarded $35.4 million Thursday to a Walpole woman who is paralyzed from a stroke that she suffered hours after she gave birth, her attorney said.

The verdict for Andrea Larkin, 35, was handed down in Norfolk Superior Court, said her lawyer, Benjamin Novotny of the Boston firm Lubin & Meyer. The defendants were Dedham Medical Associates, where Larkin sought treatment for dizziness in 2004; and Dr. Jehane Johnston, a physician who examined Larkin, Novotny said.

A Minot woman was awarded $7.65 million in damages after a jury ruled Tuesday that a Lewiston hospital technician failed to identify her cervical cancer.

Ruth Hricko, 63, sued Central Maine Medical Center for medical malpractice in September 2013. The hospital employs the technician.

Sitting in his surgical gown inside a large medical suite in Reston, Va., a Vienna man prepared for his colonoscopy by pressing record on his smartphone, to capture the instructions his doctor would give him after the procedure. But as soon as he pressed play on his way home, he was shocked out of his anaesthesia-induced stupor: He found that he had recorded the entire examination and that the surgical team had mocked and insulted him as soon as he drifted off to sleep.

India – 5th February: With 10 percent of 3.63 trillion medicines popped worldwide in 2015, India is the world’s third-largest medicine market. It stands to scientific reason that these Dr.ugs will have side effects.

Yet, in 2013, India reported no more than two percent of globally occurring adverse Dr.ug reactions (ADR.s). It isn’t as if Dr.ugs have fewer side effects in India. Serious effects were seen in 6.7 percent of patients, a 2014 study reported. Other studies have cited Dr.ug side effects as the reason for 3.4 percent of hospital admissions in India, 3.7 percent hospital readmissions and 1.8 percent mortality.

UK – 2nd February: The system that awards national and academic honours to doctors is called into question by a senior doctor writing in The BMJ.

Consultant cardiologist, Peter Wilmshurst, tells the story of Anjan Kumar Banerjee, a surgeon who spent the years 2002 to 2008 erased from the medical register for serious professional misconduct related to research fraud, financial misconduct, and substandard care. Yet in 2014 he was awarded an MBE "for services to patient safety."