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Bad Medicine: Daffy Doctors & Medical Mishaps

Whatever! But you'd have expected the doctors to investigate more carefully, instead a jumping to a simple but wrong conclusion! :mad:
The key point is that policy that would have caught this was overridden.
 
I think this fits here seeing as the woman was dead in the hospital toilet for ten hours before being discovered.

Woman lay dead in Galway University Hospital toilet for 10 hours before being found
The incident is being investigated
  • The incident occurred over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

    A spokesperson for Saolta University Health Care Group said: "The circumstances relating to the discovery of a deceased person in a disabled toilet which was locked in a public area adjacent to the Emergency Department at UHG are being investigated. ...
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/woman-lay-dead-galway-university-11008621
 
Two doctors in India were temporarily released from their duties after a video surfaced of them arguing while standing over a pregnant patient during an operation, their hospital says.

Footage of the incident, at the Umaid hospital in north Rajasthan, has been widely circulated, causing outrage.

A senior hospital official told the BBC that the woman and her baby are fine.

The source of the leaked video is unclear, but the official confirmed that it came from within the hospital. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41092466
 
Looks as if Burke & Hare are back in business..

A private medical school in Berlin is under investigation amid claims that its students illegally dissected bodies of unclear provenance. Health officials also allege that Prometheus Academy’s head isn’t a real doctor

For €4,000 the Prometheus Academy offers students a four-month course to prepare them for medical school entrance exams. But when Berlin health authorities visited they said they found bodies and body parts without any documentation of their origins. “There were no consent agreements for body donations,” said Patrick Larscheid, a health officer in Berlin’s Reinickendorf neighbourhood.

The bodies were seized to determine their origin and cause of death. The academy has been closed pending investigation of a series of allegations: storing bodies without a licence; allowing laypeople to perform dissections; and breaching German burial law.

On its website the academy, which has locations in Berlin, Munich and Cologne, shows videos of medical-school hopefuls removing gall bladders and slicing other body parts. ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...-allowing-illegal-human-dissections-1.3206555
 
Looks as if Burke & Hare are back in business..

A private medical school in Berlin is under investigation amid claims that its students illegally dissected bodies of unclear provenance. Health officials also allege that Prometheus Academy’s head isn’t a real doctor

For €4,000 the Prometheus Academy offers students a four-month course to prepare them for medical school entrance exams. But when Berlin health authorities visited they said they found bodies and body parts without any documentation of their origins. “There were no consent agreements for body donations,” said Patrick Larscheid, a health officer in Berlin’s Reinickendorf neighbourhood.

The bodies were seized to determine their origin and cause of death. The academy has been closed pending investigation of a series of allegations: storing bodies without a licence; allowing laypeople to perform dissections; and breaching German burial law.

On its website the academy, which has locations in Berlin, Munich and Cologne, shows videos of medical-school hopefuls removing gall bladders and slicing other body parts. ...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...-allowing-illegal-human-dissections-1.3206555

On the one hand, you're not going to learn any quicker than getting your hands dirty with the real thing and learning from experience and I wouldn't mind my remains being put to good use to further the skillset of someone who might go on to save many lives with the knowledge my body would afford them. Beats leaving me in the dirt to rot, at any rate.
But on the other hand, fucking hell. Cheeky bastards.
 
On the one hand, you're not going to learn any quicker than getting your hands dirty with the real thing and learning from experience and I wouldn't mind my remains being put to good use to further the skillset of someone who might go on to save many lives with the knowledge my body would afford them. Beats leaving me in the dirt to rot, at any rate.
But on the other hand, fucking hell. Cheeky bastards.

Indeed! I intend to donate my corpse to a Medical School.
 
A worthy cause, in my opinion. I may yet do the same.

I'd better get the paperwork done though. My father had wanted to donate his body but never put it in writing so the college couldn't take his body when he died.
 
The Horrifying “Cures” Of Dr. Henry Cotton — America’s Biggest Quack

American psychiatrist Henry Cotton had an interesting insanity theory. He was convinced that by removing the infected teeth of mental patients he could cure them of their insanity. The doctor, who was the protégé of the great psychiatrist Adolf Meyer of John Hopkins, was convinced that insanity resulted from untreated infections in the body.

Henry Cotton became the medical doctor and superintendent of the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital in 1907. He wasted no time in proposing and carrying out his mad procedures that were to “save” many mental patients.

Immediately after taking over Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, Cotton began removing the infected teeth of his patients. But to his surprise, this did not always cure them of their madness, although it did stop them from speaking clearly and eating properly.

Undeterred, Cotton concluded that the reason his surgeries were not always successful was that the infection had spread too far. In this case, it was necessary to remove other infected body parts, including tonsils, stomachs, gallbladders, testicles, ovaries, and colons. Or so Cotton claimed.

Source: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/henry-cotton

See Also:


Teeth Extraction As Cure For Insanity (Dr. Henry Cotton)
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...n-as-cure-for-insanity-dr-henry-cotton.66147/
 
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Mother died from flesh-eating disease after sex game injured her wrist, inquest hears
Martin Evans
23 July 2017 • 12:22pm

A young mother, who suffered a minor injury during a sex game, died from a rare flesh-eating disease when medics failed to spot the condition, an inquest has heard.
Care assistant, Katie Widdowson, 24, told doctors she had hurt her wrist after agreeing to be restrained by her boyfriend in the bedroom.

Another case of nominative determinism?
 
I suspect this story is playing on an overly broad interpretation of 'surgery' and 'operation', but it still qualifies as doctor daffiness. If nothing else, the doctor's explanation does nothing to inspire confidence in his professionalism.

Woman claims surgeon talked on cellphone during operation
A suburban New York City woman has sued a doctor, claiming he used his cellphone to take a language test while operating on her.

... Mary Edwards, of Port Chester, filed a lawsuit Monday in state Supreme Court against Dr. Eric Fishman and his employer, Westmed Medical Group. The lawsuit seeks unspecified monetary damages.

Fishman performed surgery on Edwards to fix varicose veins twice in 2017. According to the lawsuit, Edwards claims Fishman had a conversation in Spanish on his cellphone during the second outpatient procedure.

Edwards’ attorney says his client was terrified for the rest of the operation. Edwards claims Fishman later explained he was taking a Spanish proficiency test during the surgery.

SOURCE: https://apnews.com/0b67d81a13794597...-surgeon-talked-on-cellphone-during-operation
 
A psychopath.

A surgeon who marked his initials on the livers of two transplant patients has admitted assault by beating.

Simon Bramhall, 53, committed the offences at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital in February and August 2013.

The liver, spleen and pancreas surgeon was suspended later that year.

He pleaded guilty to two charges at Birmingham Crown Court and will be sentenced at the same court on 12 January.

He denied the more serious charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm - a plea which was accepted by prosecutors.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42344180
 
Did someone see him do it, and if not, how did they find out?
 
Now that's a no brainer.

Staff from nurses to the CEO have been suspended at a Nairobi hospital after the wrong patient underwent brain surgery.

One patient needed surgery for a blood clot on the brain, the other only non-invasive treatment for swelling.

But a horrifying mix-up of identification tags saw the wrong man operated on, reports say.

The doctors did not realise their mistake until "hours into the surgery", the Daily Nation reported.

They then realised "there was no blood clot".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43255648
 
Looks like the doc has been naughty.

A Canadian fertility doctor is being sued by dozens of people who claim he used his own or unknown sperm to impregnate their mothers.

In November Dr Norman Barwin was sued after a DNA test said he was the father a former patient's daughter.

At least 11 others now claim he is their biological father, lawyers say.

The group filed a class-action lawsuit with about 50 offspring of former patients whose DNA does not match their intended biological father.

The claims go as far back as the 1970s, and include patients from at least two fertility clinics in Ottawa, Ontario - Broadview Fertility Clinic and Ottawa General Hospital.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43673850
 
A bogus psychiatrist who practised in the UK for more than 20 years with no qualifications worked at the region’s mental health trust, it has been revealed.

EDP24

Very shocking case on a number of levels, the story has reached the media after the death of an autistic man in her care who drowned in the bath, for those unfamiliar with learning disability, this is a relatively common and negligent way that people often die.

Only seems to have been exposed after being convicted for fraud in faking a patients will to try and inherit.

Trust that employed her insist that they've done nothing wrong as they did appropriate checks.

Something far more profoundly broken here in psychiatry if a person with no qualifications can operate for this long without differing apparent results to the qualified.
 
I was a registered nurse in learning disability for near twenty five years & some of the trick cyclists were bloody strange & some just useless & incompetent, although that could be said of some of the nursing staff as well.
Once appointed, there was no way ordinary mortals could get rid of a psychiatrist, no matter how useless they were.

One convinced the regional health authority that their post was not necessary & got early retirement & pension, so they could start a private practice, which meant there was no longer a psychiatric service in the area, even though there was an obvious need for one & patients on a waiting list she was denying existed.
 
A woman suffered chemical injuries after being mistakenly prescribed erectile dysfunction cream for a dry eye, according to a report. The anonymous patient, from Glasgow, had to be treated at A&E after mistakenly receiving Vitaros cream instead of ocular lubricant VitA-POS, a report in the BMJ Case Reports medical journal said. Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/s...ctile-dysfunction-cream-for-dry-eye-1-4853087 Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/s...ctile-dysfunction-cream-for-dry-eye-1-4853087

https://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/s...ctile-dysfunction-cream-for-dry-eye-1-4853087
 
Self help gone wrong...

Man Injects 18 'Doses' of Semen Into Arm to Cure Back Pain, Ends Up in Hospital

In a new case study, Irish doctors report the baffling case of a 33-year-old man who injected his own semen intravenously for a year and a half, a self-developed “cure” intended to treat his chronic back pain. It does not appear to have worked.
After reportedly injecting semen into his arm every month for 18 months, the man finally sought medical attention—but not for his arm. The patient instead complained of “severe, sudden onset lower pack pain,” having lifted a “heavy steel object” three days beforehand. During his checkup, the doctor found a patch of red swelling on his right forearm, after which the man admitted he’d been injecting himself with his own semen using a hypodermic needle he purchased online.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen something... like this. Perhaps this case reminds you of Aaron Traywick, the deceased biohacker who once gave himself an unregulated herpes treatment in front of a crowd.

https://gizmodo.com/man-injects-18-doses-of-semen-into-arm-to-cure-back-pai-1831817131?IR=T
 
Never snapped a penis but have twanged the odd banjo string.
An over amorous ex once sawed almost completely through my banjo string with her bottom row of teeth, I was so caught up in the moment I didn't notice until I saw some blood on her bottom lip and stopped things out of concern for what I at first thought was her injury ..

I handled mini me very carefully until it had healed, someone told me if she'd cut all the way through, I'd have never been able to get a stiffy again, someone else told me the bonus part was that my nob would now grow a bit longer. I've no idea if either of those things are true .. you're in the medical profession, see if you can find out for me please Skargy. Ask around a bit could you?
 
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