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Surgeon who was convicted of assault for branding his initials on livers of two patients during transplant operation avoids being struck off after blaming ‘work stress’ Simon Bramhall, 55, used argon beam machine to mark the organs in operations Initials were discovered by change after donor organ failed a week after implant Bramhall resigned from … Read more
Salt-N-Pepa’s Sandra Denton sues plastic surgeon claiming he ‘pushed her to get three procedures on her buttocks and messed them up’ The 54-year-old, who is Pepa in Salt-N-Pepa, says that the accident in 2018 caused her physical discomfort by moving around her buttock implants Her legal filing alleges that Dr. David Sayah performed the subsequent … Read more
What’s up, doc? Operations are more likely to go wrong if the surgeon is celebrating a birthday, study suggests Surgery more likely to go wrong if doctor is celebrating a birthday, study says Distractions from dinner plans to messages could make them more error prone Study found the death rate for elderly patients who did not … Read more
The partner of an electrician who took his life after eye surgery went wrong refused to accept a tearful apology offered by a surgeon at an inquest into the death. Paul Dance, 62, an electrician at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, paid £6,990 to have lens replacement surgery carried out by eye-care firm Optegra in January because … Read more
Rugby’s professional era created a new breed of powerful players so that being tackled in the modern game is ‘like being hit by a truck’, a sports surgeon who treated ex-England hooker Steve Thompson has said. The sport is facing a reckoning as former players reveal the crippling injuries inflicted by a career of fierce collisions. Demands for … Read more
Diego Maradona was ‘unmanageable’ and should have been sent to rehab, said his personal surgeon who is being investigated over involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, said they were investigating Leopoldo Luque over possible medical negligence and police raided his doctor’s surgery and home on Sunday. But Luque said the footballing icon … Read more
US Surgeon General Dr Jerome Adams has pledged he will get the first coronavirus vaccine approved for emergency use when told it is safe. During an interview on Good Morning America on Monday, Adams was asked about a recent Gallup poll, which found that more than 40 percent of people are unwilling to be immunized … Read more
TALK OF THE TOWN: Heart surgeon Hasnat Khan – who had a discreet two-year fling with Princess Diana – seems to cut a less dashing figure these days as he is spotted putting out the bins at his Essex home By Alistair Foster, Joanna Bell And Sophie Cockerham For The Mail On Sunday Published: 00:45 … Read more
At least 199 frontline health and care workers have died after contracting coronavirus. Through tributes from local NHS trusts and loved ones, here are the confirmed names of health and social care workers who have died after contracting Covid-19 since March 11. This chronological list contains people who were working in roles shortly before their … Read more
Please help give my little girl a second chance at life: Surgeon makes stem cell plea as his daughter, 12, fights rare blood disorder Geraint Lloyd is appealing for donors to help save his 12-year-old daughter, Arya Arya, from Cambridge, has been diagnosed with a life-threatening blood disease The keen swimmer has aplastic anaemia, which limits … Read more