northernweekly.com.au on September 26, 2011 reported that a 21-year-old man who waited 30 hours to be given antibiotics is suing Northern Hospital after he was left paralysed. The multimillion-dollar medical negligence case brought by Slater & Gordon is now before the Supreme Court. The hospital has denied allegations of negligence. Supreme Court documents state Campbellfield student Tony Assi was 16 when he attended Northern Hospital's emergency department in Epping on November 4, 2006. He complained of having had a headache and fever for four days.

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nashvillepost.com on September 22, 2011 reported that Despite health care advances almost beyond reason, life-saving techniques never before considered, cutting–edge research on the cusp of major disease cure, it’s the simplest things that can derail patient care and cause unnecessary injury and sometimes death. It’s called communication. Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? When it came to the care delivered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Charles Anthony Fowler late last year, he says the answer is no — and he’s filed a $15 million lawsuit because of it.

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newswatchngr.com on September 28, 2011 reported that Kehinde Ayoade, a nurse and proprietor of Frame Dynamic Convalescent Centre, Idimu, Lagos State, is in trouble following the death of Darlington Manuwa, a businessman, in his clinic on July 2. The patient died within 45 minutes of his admission. The deceased’s family insisted that the nurse was responsible for the death of their beloved one because he had allegedly operated at a level far above his training as a nurse.

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cd1077fm.com on September 22, 2011 reported that an Everly man who was a pharmacist in Spencer, was sentenced to federal prison. In US District Court, 58-year old David Easton received the prison term of at least 3 years, on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to two counts of health care fraud, one count of money laundering, and one count of aggravated identity theft. Easton formerly owned and operated Medicap Pharmacy in Spencer. In court, he admitted that from about 2003 to 2006, he defrauded Medicaid and Coventry Health Care out of more than $200,000, by submitting false claims for prescriptions.

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chron.com on September 24, 2011 reported that a Houston County judge has ordered a former Dothan doctor to spend two days in jail for violating the terms of the county work release program. A jury found 47-year-old Andrew Osborne guilty of second-degree domestic violence earlier this year. Circuit Court Judge Larry Anderson sentenced Osborne to four years in prison, which was suspended for 90 days in the county's work release program.

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iol.co.za on September 28, 2011 reported that the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department faces medical negligence claims totalling R600 million, arising from lawsuits filed in the past seven years. The figure was revealed last week by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi during a meeting with health-care professionals in Cape Town. An influx of patients, overcrowding and understaffing at public health-care facilities have been cited as possible contributors to the lawsuits.

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orlandosentinel.com on September 28, 2011 reported that a 23-year-old man who pretended to be a multimillionaire medical doctor and wrote a $21,000 fraudulent check to an Orlando realtor was sentenced this week to 17 months in federal prison for bank fraud. Curtis Allen Sutton, a Georgia resident who also falsely claimed he was heir to the Etch A Sketch fortune, pleaded guilty to the fraud charge on June 30.

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nvdaily.com on September 27, 2011 reported that a former Winchester Medical Center anesthesiologist suspended after she admitted stealing patients' morphine has been deemed fit to practice medicine again. Dr. Marianne Parham Matthews appeared before a Virginia Board of Medicine special conference committee on Aug. 25, according to an order from the board entered Sept. 7. The committee reinstated her license. Matthews' license was indefinitely suspended in June 2009. A 2009 Valley Health medical staff directory showed she was employed by Winchester Anesthesiologists Inc.

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deccanchronicle.com on September 29, 2011 reported that a doctor was arrested for allegedly sexually exploiting a lady doctor after promising to marry her. The police identified the arrested as Murali Krishna Bharathi, 34, son of a doctor who runs a fertility centre in Tambaram. According to a complaint from the 33-year-old dentist, she came to know Murali Krishna in 2007 when she was doing her post graduation.

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kentonline.co.uk on September 28, 2011 reported that a disgraced family doctor is facing sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman at a Medway surgery. But Dr Sanjay Chatterjee showed his relief on hearing a judge say he was not considering a jail sentence. The 46-year-old married GP, of Perch Close, Larkfield, Maidstone, was found guilty of one charge of sexual assault but cleared of six other charges of sexual assault and one of assault by penetration involving another woman.

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healthzone.ca on September 26, 2011 reported that was it a bad day, or a lack of insight, judgment and knowledge that should end his career? And can the tragedy of a young mother’s death be righted by a doctor’s remediation, or redeemed only by stripping away his medical licence? These are the questions at the heart of Dr. Bruce Liberman’s fate. The Toronto anesthesiologist has already been deemed disgraceful, unprofessional and incompetent for his role in the post-operative care of 32-year-old Krista Stryland, who died after having liposuction at a cosmetic clinic in September 2007.

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timesofindia.com on September 27, 2011 reported that Michael Jackson's doctor was guilty of "gross negligence" which led directly to the pop icon's death, a prosecutor said on Tuesday at the start of the medic's long-awaited manslaughter trial. David Walgren made the accusation as hundreds of supporters demonstrated outside the Los Angeles Superior Court, some chanting "murderer" as the doctor, Conrad Murray, arrived amid heavy security for the five-week trial. "The evidence… will show that Michael Jackson literally put his life in the hands of Conrad Murray," Walgren told the court in his opening statement, adding: "That misplaced trust… cost Michael Jackson his life."

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7thspace.com on September 27, 2011 reported that Louisville, Kentucky, physician Dr Steven H. Stern and his practice, Kentuckiana Center for Better Bone and Joint Health PLLC (KCB) have agreed to pay $349,860 to settle allegations of overbilling Medicare, the Justice Department announced today. The complaint, initially brought by a former employee of KCB, alleges that Stern and KCB falsely billed Medicare for infusing Infliximab, a drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Specifically, the complaint alleges that Stern and KCB were splitting vials of Infliximab across multiple patients, then billing Medicare as if a whole vial was used for each patient. The complaint alleges that this practice resulted in the submission of fraudulent claims. The alleged overbilling covered a three-year period from December 2003 through December 2006.

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dailycamera.com on September 27, 2011 reported that a nurse accused of improperly accessing patient records at numerous hospitals in the Denver metro area faces five counts of identity theft and 46 counts of theft of medical records in connection with his time at Boulder Community Hospital between May 2010 and January 2011. Cannon Lamar Tubb, 31, worked for a now-defunct Denver nurse staffing agency that placed him as an intensive care unit nurse in numerous Centura Health facilities, the Platte Valley Medical Center and Boulder Community Hospital, according to court documents.

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democratandchronicle.com on September 27, 2011 reported that the state Department of Health Board for Professional Medical Conduct has issued a censure and reprimand with two-year probation against a family medicine practitioner in Brockport, effective Sept. 21. The state charged negligence on more than one occasion against Dr. Vinay Aggarwal for three cases in 2006 at the emergency department of Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, Allegany County. Aggarwal was charged with failure to adequately evaluate a patient and failure to maintain records that adequately showed the evaluation and treatment of two others.

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chron.com on September 27, 2011 reported that a former Tupelo radiologist has been sentenced to federal prison for violating child pornography laws. U.S. District Court Judge Neal B. Biggers sentenced David Callahan Schaff on Monday to 72 months in prison and six years supervised released. Schaff, who gave up his medical license in three states, also must register as a sex offender.

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chron.com on September 27, 2011 reported that a Cabell County doctor has surrendered her medical license following an investigation of her drug prescribing practices. The West Virginia Board of Osteopathy had suspended Dr. Anita Dawson's license in April 2010 following a raid of her Milton office by federal agents. According to the board, eight of Dawson's patients died from overdoses.

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