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CT vet wins nearly $1M for botched eye surgery
A 60-year-old Army veteran won a $925,000 settlement with the Department of Veterans Affairs after he was blinded in...
Medicare fraud nets 20-year prison sentence for Miami physician
A Miami-Dade doctor convicted of pocketing more than $1 million for writing phony prescriptions for unnecessary HIV...
Fugitive in UC Irvine fertility scandal arrested in Mexico City
A physician who rocked a UC Irvine fertility clinic 15 years ago when he and a partner switched the frozen embryos of...
Web Exclusive: Doctors still fear malpractice lawsuits, U.S. study finds
Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that while doctors are fearful of being sued for malpractice, their...
Web Exclusive: Fear of Malpractice Litigation
Lots of people fear visiting the doctor's office for a variety of reasons, among them not wanting to deal with...
Web Exclusive: Physician Lawsuits Not Uncommon, AMA Says
For every 100 physicians, there are 95 medical lawsuits, according to a report from the American Medical Association...
IL doctor records taken offline
Illinois once provided the public with detailed histories of the state's doctors — including whether the...
Limited training among some cosmetic surgery doctors worries FL officials
A Tampa doctor accused of allowing unlicensed assistants to perform liposuction should have his license suspended for a...
Why physicians hate to admit their errors, even to themselves
It seems entirely obvious: Doctors need to apologize for their errors, even if the patient didn't suffer irreparable...
Pill mill doc gets 25-year prison term
A former San Fernando physician convicted of improperly prescribing powerful painkillers to drug addicts and undercover...