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Court filings in Florida show patients staying in recovery houses and hotels have died or suffered untreated complications.

A physician performed surgery at Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Fla., while infected with Clostridium difficile, according to a Daytona Beach News-Journal report. An independent ...

Patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at greatly increased risk of postoperative death, a new global study published in The Lancet reveals. Researchers found that amongst ...

Late one Friday, an elderly man was admitted to the emergency department with a fractured hip from a recent fall. He had an unexplained fever of 102.5°F with a slight possibility of early upper ...

Physicians describe the standardized procedure of surgical anesthesia for patients with COVID-19 infection requiring emergency surgery to minimize the risk of virus spread and reduce lung injury in a ...

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Vanessa Carter suffered life-changing injuries from a horror car crash but her nightmare shockingly got worse years later ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Fifteen Indians lost their sight after a doctor used suspected infected equipment to remove cataracts at a free eye surgery camp, the latest incident to highlight the dangers of ...

My CT Scan. It is of my lumbar spine and helping to prove that the surgery on 2/7 was highly successful. The left view is the Sagittal (side) view. The right image is Axial (cross section) For those ...