Woman, 85, in hospital, misses $484 house payment

New Jersey - An elderly New Jersey woman billed $5,800 after missing the final payment on her 30-year mortgage can pursue her lawsuit against the debt collectors. Lawyers for 85-year-old Dorothy Rhue Allen say the fees charged by two banks and a law firm violate consumer-protection laws. The banks advised her lawyers she could pay $5,800 to avoid foreclosure. More… 

Hospital Horror: Woman Trapped By Elevator

New York - A hospital visitor ended up in critical condition after being trapped by an elevator and having to be cut out of it. The woman was at Brooklyn’s SUNY Downstate Hospital at. She was trying to get on an 8th floor elevator when something went wrong and her legs were trapped between the elevator and the floor. The woman was reportedly drifting in and out of consciousness and was bleeding profusely as she lay trapped with her legs crushed...More

Hospital asks doctors not to snort cocaine at work

Italy - An Italian hospital director sent a memo to doctors and nurses asking them not to snort cocaine while on duty. Giuseppe Di Maria now faces possible disciplinary action following the memo sent to medical staff at the Santa Catarina Novella di Galatina Hospital near Lecce in southern Italy. The memo was sent after Di Maria received anonymous tip-offs about the practice at the hospital...More

One woman says she saw a bedbug, hospital shut down

New York - NYU’s Hospital for Joint Diseases shut down a 10th-floor treatment area after a patient said she saw a bedbug. The woman’s claim forced the evacuation of the hospital’s infusion center on the 10th floor of the W. 17th St. facility. Hospital workers scoured the area and said they found nothing, but the staff was sent home, appointments were canceled and the isolated area was treated just in case...More

Odd News Minor Surgical Procedure Turns Into Double Amputation

Odd News New York - A simple surgery has turned into a living nightmare for a Brooklyn mom. She was supposed to be in and out of the hospital on the same day. Instead, both her legs had to be amputated because of an alleged medical mishap and now she wants justice. Stacy Galette went to Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola for what she said was supposed to be a minor gynecological procedure. However, something went wrong and both of her legs were amputated.....More

Hospital gives wrong baby to new mother

Williston, North Dakota - Officials at Williston?s Mercy Medical Center are investigating how the wrong baby was given to a mother who was discharged. Mercy Chief Financial Officer Kerry Monson, who was the administrator on call this past weekend said said the mistake was discovered by staff and ?as soon they recognized it, it was addressed.? Monson said there are numerous policies and procedures involved, while adding she can not give information about protocol. --More

Staff at hospital ignored dying man for six hours while they posed for calendar shoot

UK - Smiling for the camera, these are staff at the hospital where a dying man was not seen for six hours - posing for a calendar in which they mock waiting times. Stewart Fleming, 37, was left doubled up in agony despite arriving in casualty with a letter from his GP saying he needed immediate attention. After he was finally seen on December 15, he rapidly deteriorated. He died two days after Christmas from a viral illness. More
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Bizarre News:Hospital tells grandfather, 71, that he's pregnant

Bizarre News:Hospital tells grandfather, 71, that he's pregnant

PORTLAND, Ore. - A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital's paperwork: "Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant." Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen.

The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills.

Hospital administrator William McMillan says an errant keystroke caused the hospital's computer to spit out the wrong discharge instructions for the grandfather.
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Stupid News-RI hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee

Stupid News-RI hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee
and Doctors make how much???

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - State health officials were investigating how a surgeon operated on the wrong knee of a patient Friday at the Miriam Hospital, part of a medical network that was reprimanded and fined $50,000 last year for three mistaken surgeries at another of its facilities.
The latest mistake happened while a surgeon performed a knee arthroscopy, a procedure in which doctors insert a pencil-sized camera into the knee so they can diagnose a malady. In some cases, surgeons will repair or remove damaged tissue.

After the operation was complete, the surgeon realized the mistake and operated on the correct knee, hospital officials said.
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