NHS crisis: patients victims of the English health system
In addition to the waiting times and canceled operations, there is a strike by young doctors. Two expatriates in the ...
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United Kingdom: health system on the verge of collapse
Waiting times that are lengthening, interventions canceled, the NHS is going through a deep and lasting crisis. The quality of ...
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Englishwoman gives medicine to her children to obtain benefits
An English mother has been sentenced to prison for subjecting her children to unnecessary medical treatment. To receive social benefits.It ...
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Limoges: the patient operated on by mistake will receive compensation
In 2011, a patient had been operated on by mistake. He had nearly lost his sight a few years later ...
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Death at Bourges hospital: opening of a judicial investigation
A judicial investigation is opened after the death of a patient operated on for the prostate at the hospital of ...
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Medical accidents: 6 out of 10 disputes concern surgeons
Surgery is the specialty that generates the most medical accidents considered to be "major claims". The average amount of compensation ...
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Migrant racketeering: the Cimade flushes out many doctors
The Cimade association, which helps foreigners to have their rights recognized, assures us that "many doctors" were engaged in racketeering ...
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Cannabis cake: “the risks are unpredictable”
A doctor was in custody after offering a cannabis cake to his colleagues, 2 of whom are hospitalized. Space cake ...
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Medical errors: 3rd cause of death in the United States
250,000 Americans die each year from a medical error. Many of these deaths are preventable according to the two researchers ...
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Mediator: more favorable rules for compensation
In a decree published on Wednesday, the Minister of Health, Marisol Touraine, unveils the new rules more favorable to the ...
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Italy: depressed nurse reportedly killed 13 patients
Italian police officers arrested a nurse on suspicion of causing the death of 13 patients in a hospital in Piombino, ...
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Difficult patients are at risk of misdiagnosis
Difficult, unpleasant or suspicious patients have a 42% more risk of being misdiagnosed when the pathology is a little complicated.General ...
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AIDS: a clinic mistakenly discloses the identity of 780 patients
A London clinic specializing in the treatment of sexually transmitted infections has released the names of 780 HIV patients.A serious ...
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Mediator: Servier rejected 10 compensation cases
Accused of fighting against compensation for victims, Servier claims to keep its commitments. 10 files out of 1,580 were rejected ...
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Medical error: 40 lymph nodes removed because of a tattoo
A woman has had her lymph nodes removed incorrectly as a result of uterine cancer. Doctors took the ink from ...
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Amputation after an abortion: indictment of the gynecologist
A gynecologist from the Bordeaux University Hospital has been indicted for "involuntary injuries" on a woman who had to undergo ...
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Dental treatment: a strawberry ends up in a patient’s lung
A man had to be operated on after swallowing his dentist's burr during dental treatment. The practitioner would have accidentally ...
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Amiens: a child with Down’s syndrome seriously burned while undergoing an MRI
A young boy with Down's syndrome lost his thumb, burnt alive, during a routine MRI examination at the Amiens University ...
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Queen Cailton gets € 1.5million for medical error
Hospitalized for intestinal obstruction, a retiree lost her sight after cardiac arrest. She obtained compensation for her loss in the ...
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Surirradiated Epinal: 3 years in prison suspended for doctors and radio manipulator
Three practitioners from the Epinal hospital were sentenced to three years in prison and banned from practicing, after the accidental ...
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Cancer: 850 patients wrongly informed by mail
More than 800 Britons have received a letter informing them of a suspicion of cancer. Two months later, the organization ...
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Angers: operated on the intestine, a patient leaves the hospital blind
A patient, operated on for a simple intestinal obstruction, emerged blind from a clinic in Angers (Maine-et-Loire). Justice opens its ...
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Lille: treatment error on two “reversed” patients
Two patients from the CHRU de Lille received inappropriate radiosurgical treatment due to an identity reversal. The hospital insists on ...
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Myopathy: a mother and her daughter treated wrongly for seven years in Nancy
A mother and daughter were wrongly diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and treated for seven years. At the Nancy University Hospital, ...
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Poorly packaged drugs: a suspicious death
The victim allegedly took a sleeping pill for several days which he believed to be a diuretic. An investigation has ...
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Poorly conditioned diuretics: the laboratory inspected on Monday
While an investigation has just been opened after the death of a nonagenarian on diuretics, the laboratory responsible for the ...
Read moreFurosemide: the trail of the malicious act
After the suspicious death of a patient, the investigation continues at the production site of the diuretic Furosemide, where the ...
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