The incident occurred in 2016, but Massachusetts state regulators have just now fined a top Boston surgeon who left a patient awaiting ankle surgery lying on an emergency room operating table, while ...

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Dr Suhail Anjam, aged 44, was caught by a horrified colleague in a ‘compromising position’ with an unnamed nurse at Tameside Hospital in the UK. The shocking incident took place back in September 2023 ...

A Connecticut man is suing after he allegedly fell off the operating table in mid-surgery and was injured at Yale New Haven Hospital. The medical malpractice lawsuit, brought against the hospital, ...

Surgeons have stressful, high-stakes jobs. Luckily, they receive years of academic and practical training to help them prepare. However, patients, the ones putting their lives on the line each day, ...

A 70-year-old English woman ‘dropped’ from an operating table following hip surgery is dead and her family wants answers. The BBC reports that Jeannette Shields of northwest England checked into ...

Using a device that looks more like a torture rack than a surgical table, surgeons are now able to replace a hip through the front of the pelvis, limiting tissue and muscle damage and leading to ...

“That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right?" said organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin. "Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open" Getty Anthony Thomas “TJ” ...

A senior doctor who left a patient on an operating table in the middle of surgery to have sex with a nurse in an adjoining theatre has been cleared to resume his medical career. Consultant ...

A man in Kentucky was moments away from having his organs removed when medical staff realized he wasn’t dead. What followed has become one of the most unsettling incidents in the history of US organ ...