A surgical assistant who claims
she's the victim of sexual
harassment by a surgeon and
CRNA caught one of her tor-
menters fondling himself in the
OR on a cell phone video that
was recently made public. osmag.net/rcCFD3
An angry mother is suing the
pediatrician that mixed up her
newborn son with another
infant and performed an
unnecessary frenulectomy on
him. osmag.net/a8gGVX
A California hospital was fined $86,000 after leaving a blue
surgical towel inside a patient. Community Medical Regional
Center in Fresno discovered the towel during a second surgery, 3
months after a patient had his bladder and prostate removed.
osmag.net/W9ghPJ
A Kentucky orthopedic surgeon, furious at
hospital administrators, was arrested
after threatening to get an assault rifle in
the middle of surgery and use it to settle
their differences. osmag.net/b4tFCC
A surgical technician is claiming in a lawsuit that a surgeon
repeatedly bullied him because of the color of his skin, while
hospital officials looked the other way. osmag.net/DWAdk4
After seeing her nude before-and-after surgery pictures on a
local television report, a Utah woman is suing her plastic
surgeon, claiming he handed over the pics without her consent.
osmag.net/oNEVm6
A cataract surgeon may be on
the hook for more than $50,000
following a botched surgery
that allegedly left a patient
with permanent injuries.
osmag.net/CbZZw5
Nearly 300 colonoscopy patients might
have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B
and hepatitis C after a Massachusetts
hospital failed to adequately disinfect
colonoscopes for almost a year.
osmag.net/A5jRKu
A Nevada obstetrician is call-
ing his former hospital "evil" in a
lawsuit filed after the hospital
revoked his privileges for alleged bad
behavior. osmag.net/J7PuYu
Hospital officials paid cyber-attackers $17,000 in
Bitcoin to release their electronic health records
and e-mail accounts after the hackers held the
systems hostage for more than a week.
osmag.net/QFHw2k
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