A new video has surface in China, which combines a number of worst-case scenarios. At the center is a female patient in need of medical care who has been admitted to a hospital. Either she was fortunate enough to get an appointment on her own, or she was forced to pay a scalper to get a ticket to see a doctor. In the end, how she ended up on the operating table took a backseat to the fact that her surgeon, rather than providing treatment, dished out punishment.

Almost £110m has been paid out on medical negligence cases and legal fees in Northern Ireland over a three-year period, figures obtained by the BBC have revealed.

Between 2011 and 2014, the five health trusts settled a total of 570 cases.

Victims of medical mistakes are “left to flounder” in seeking access to justice while the State deploys “massive” resources in mounting a legal defence, a solicitor has claimed.

Ernest Cantillon, who specialises in medical negligence cases, said it was difficult to reconcile the State’s obligation to ensure a fair hearing with the way in which it funded the State Claims Agency, the body that manages clinical claims, and “failed” to fund victims.

Lessons to be learned from a case in which a surgeon had a resident perform part of surgery.

Informed consent constitutes a complex inquiry. We continue to examine this doctrine in this column through the review of a case from Maryland that addresses specific physician duties that arise under this doctrine.

Florida, US – 16th March, 2016: Florida health officials this week took steps to revoke the medical license of a Miami cosmetic surgeon accused of severely injuring at least four patients in May 2015 while performing liposuction and another procedure known as a “Brazilian butt lift.”  The doctor has 21 days from the day he receives the state’s complaint to dispute the charges, accept them or negotiate a settlement. A settlement would require approval from the Board of Medicine at a public hearing.