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Search results for "physician errors" ...
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Patients in Peril
This investigation showed how the Virginia Board of Medicine allowed more than 250 doctors - including sex offenders, tax evaders, felons, drug dealers and a convicted murderer -- to hold medical licenses, despite records of grave errors and or misconduct.
Tags: FOIA; National Practitioner Data Bank; medical malpractice; Department of Health Professions; child abuse; child molestation; physicians; pediatrics; pediatrician
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Surgeon pulls in revenue at a price
The Orange County Register documented a ten-year history of problems with Dr. Israel Chambi, chief of neurosurgery at the largest head trauma center in Orange County. It found that Chambi "has repeatedly been accused of performing unnecessary surgeries, making grave errors in the operating room, and lying to patients. Chambi has been sued 10 times as often as any other Orange County neurosurgeon; 10 patients won settlements or verdicts that total more than $3 million." The paper also found that Western Medical Center "had a powerful economic motivation not to ask too many questions: Chambi's division generates $38 million a year in billings for the hospital."
Tags: Dr. Israel Chambi; neurosurgery; Orange County; unnecessary surgery; physician errors; malpractice; hospitals; Western Medical Center; Tenet Healthcare Corp.; lawsuits; healthcare; doctors
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Air Force Times takes a close look at the string of errors that left former Airman Dean Mellberg free to shoot Maj. Thomas E. Brigham and others June 20, 1994, at the base near Spokane, Wash. Five died in a situation that could have been avoided had there not been a series of miscommunications such as the attending military physician failing to comment on the medical history form when Mellberg disclosed that he had previous mental-health counseling. (Dec. 11, 1995)
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Lawyers vs. Doctors vs. Patients
GQ Magazine reports that "As the nation's two most powerful professions clash over the big-bucks issue of malpractice reform, both may be missing the point...The interests of doctors and lawyers have so dominated the dispute over malpractice reform that it's easy to overlook the interests of plaintiffs...because all it takes to become one of those people is a single bade medical outcome.."