Research presented at last summer’s World Congress of Anesthesiologists in Hong Kong revealed a bit of a shocker: patients who undergo surgery at night are more prone to die, compared to those operated on during standard working hours. In other words, the later your surgery is, the greater the risk. The findings, according to an in-depth study led by Doctor Michael Tessler and Doctor Ning Nan Wang, of the Anesthesia Department at McGill University in Montreal Canada, surpris

It seems that a physician – formerly on staff at Miami’s largest children’s hospital, no less – confessed last September to charges of attempted felony child abuse. And as a result, his medical license has finally been revoked by the Florida Board of Medicine. There was no word from the state medical board as to why – after this embarrassing admission – that it should have taken a whopping 10 months to revoke the medical license of a physician pervert. But we can assure you t

New details are emerging in the case against Doctor Jaime Sandoval in Corpus Christi Texas. The Texas Medical Board announced on July 21 they have suspended his medical license after credible reports that he was routinely inappropriately touching and groping adult female patients. A Corpus Christi doctor’s license has been suspended for “engaging in a pattern of inappropriate conduct with 5 female patients, in which he violated sexual boundaries.” A spokesperson for the Corpu

PSA Flight #182 - The Day That Broke the Heart of a City When Patrick McDonald began rescue training in the 1970s, he was among the first paramedics in the nation, filled with the zeal to save lives in ways not imagined even a decade before. More than 20,000 911 calls later however, pride in his profession has eroded. So he turned to his three-decades of note-taking to scribe an imminently readable, jaw-dropping assessment of the power struggles within the cloistered world of

.entry-meta Olympic team victims complained for two decades. Nobody believed their stories For 20 years he was a well-known sports physician in the tight-knit community of world-class gymnastics. He routinely treated many of the finest female athletes on the planet. He was the USA team doctor for gymnasts at 4 Olympics in a row. So nobody really wanted to hear that he was also a child sex predator in lab coat. His name is doctor Larry Nassar, and now his cosmically successful