No checks done on banned doctor (Sydney Morning Herald)
No checks done on banned doctor (Sydney Morning Herald)
A DEREGISTERED doctor was able to illegally attend 36 obstetric patients at two South Coast public hospitals - despite being banned from the specialty five years earlier - because the NSW Health Department failed to conduct background checks on him.
Doctor rejects cadavers from China for Bodies exhibit (The Beaver County Times)
NEW YORK The doctor behind the Body Worlds exhibits that show cadavers in different poses says he has stopped using bodies from China for fear that some of them may be executed prisoners, ABC News reported on Friday.
‘Mutilation’ doctor probe (Sydney Morning Herald)
Strike force to investigate complaints of some of the 800 women allegedly mutilated by struck-off doctor.
NSW suspends Czech-trained doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
The New South Wales Medical Board has suspended an overseas-trained doctor who is facing several malpractice allegations in New Zealand.
Doctor to face charges of murdering husband (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation)
A doctor suspected of murdering her husband will face murder charges after the high court declined to grant an order that sought to stop her prosecution.
Doctor’s dodgy past unveiled (The Courier Mail)
THE state’s bumbling health authorities allowed a previously jailed doctor with a drinking problem to operate on 17 women without checking his past.
Keep taking your tablets: Ulster doctor (Belfast Telegraph)
A leading Ulster doctor today urged people taking anti-depressants not to stop the treatment in the wake of recent doubts about their effectiveness.
Doctor With History Of Neglect Still Has License (KMGH 7 Denver)
A Denver-area doctor with a documented history of patient neglect continues to practice in Colorado. Now, another patient under his care has died and the CALL7 Investigators are exploring why the state’s medical board has done nothing.
UTMB presents Doctor s Dilemma’ (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON Dr. C. Joan Richardson, chief of medical staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch, will join seven other UTMB faculty members and six medical and graduate students in a dramatic reading of George Bernard Shaw s The Doctor s Dilemma on Nov. 20.
Strike force to probe ‘genital mutilation’ doctor (ABC via Yahoo!7 News)
Police have set up a strike force to investigate allegations a former New South Wales doctor sexually abused women and mutilated their genitals during operations.