Reprimand or Full Inquiry: Bradenton Neurosurgeon Who Made Second ‘Hole in Head’ Error Must Decide

A Bradenton neurosurgeon who cut a hole on the wrong side of a patient’s skull — amazingly, the second such offense in his career — got a surprise from the Florida Board of Medicine in Jacksonville. He found out that they were not going to honor a proposed settlement from the Florida Department of Health…

A story in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that surgeons in the United States make thousands of “never event” errors every year. A “never event” is described as a medical mistake that should never happen — like an operation on the wrong person or a sponge being left inside a patient’s body. According to…

A Tampa woman, who lost her hands and feet due to a flesh-eating bacteria infection that she allegedly contracted following a Tampa General Hospital outpatient surgical procedure, is suing the hospital for medical malpractice. The patient believed she would be able to go home a few hours after having surgery to remove an ovarian cyst…

The office is nice, the doctor is charming and there are impressive-looking certificates on the wall. Finally, you have decided to take the hard-earned money you’ve been saving to get the cosmetic surgery procedure you’ve always dreamed of. Since your doctor has offered the service, you just assume that he or she is a board-certified…

In the early 1980s, Dr. Thomas Graboys, a doctor at Harvard Medical School, was highly sought out for second options by patients across the United States who had been told they needed to undergo bypass surgery because they had a high risk of suffering a heart attack. Graboys often cited a study done by the…