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Last spring at an Article 32 hearing — the military equivalent to a civilian grand jury — Fontana's co-workers and medical experts indicated it was unlikely anyone with medical training would not understand the fatal risks of dispensing such high doses. One of the alleged victims, a 74-year-old stroke patient, died after receiving 70 milligrams of morphine in a span of ...

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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Phillip A. Paul in 1987 was declared criminally insane for killing an elderly woman after voices in his head told him she was a witch. Instead of being straitjacketed and locked away as might be depicted by film or fiction, Paul in the past two decades has spent time living and working in downtown Spokane, fathered a child, ...

Seven years ago, after a scathing series of stories in The Dallas Morning News, the Texas Medical Board promised to crack down on bad doctors. Patient endangerment would be dealt with severely. And sexual misconduct, one official said, would become "intolerable." It hasn't turned out that way.

A specialized Tucson long-term care facility has agreed to pay $8,000 in fines to the state health department for failing to follow state rules on caring for four patients, including a diabetic who died with elevated blood sugar. The fine followed an Arizona Department of Health Services investigation in March, which was prompted by four complaints about Cornerstone Hospital of Southeast ...

A dentist who gave a nurse a 'wedgie' and pranced around his surgery wearing a leopard-print thong has been struck off. Dr Anthony Barton, 36, paraded around in front of the 19-year-old nurse in the thong and shouted: 'Get a load of that!' He was hauled before the General Dental Council after it emerged he had regularly groped nurses bottoms, twanged ...

CHICAGO, Ill. - An Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center nurse has filed a civil lawsuit against a Chicago police officer and the city of Chicago, claiming the officer arrested her for wanting to consult with a supervisor before collecting a blood sample from a suspected drunken driver. Lisa Hofstra was the nurse in charge of the emergency room at Illinois Masonic ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Recent filings in a federal lawsuit claim that a California meatpacking plant that supplied the nation's school lunch program slaughtered cows that were too sick to stand for nearly four years, and hid it from U.S. officials.

The Audubon Ambulatory Surgical Center in Colorado Springs is fighting a subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office seeking the identity of a patient who may have contracted hepatitis C from a fired operating room technician.

A dentist asked three dental nurses if they shaved their pubic hair and he had sex with a fourth at his surgery, a disciplinary tribunal has heard. He groped two of the women and on one occasion pulled down his trousers in front of a nurse to reveal a leopard-print thong saying: "Get a load of that." Anthony Barton is accused ...

A former hospice nurse in Greeley was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for stealing six patients' identities to get their pain medications. Marguerite Furgerson's sobs echoed through the Weld Courthouse hallway as she was led away in handcuffs to immediately begin serving her prison sentence. "You're a nurse. You're supposed to be helping people," Weld District Court Judge Tom ...

A hospital in northwestern North Dakota is investigating how the mother of a newborn went home with the wrong baby.

Propofol is not just for Michael Jackson. Kissimmee police on Thursday found registered anesthetist Teresa Fowler-Platkin slumped over in her black Mercedes-Benz with a syringe sticking out of her arm, blood on her skin and a bag full of stolen drugs, including Propofol, in her car. The powerful sedative, Propofol, is thought to be a contributing factor in the death of ...

A Pymatuning Township man has been accused of taking prescription painkillers for his own use from UPMC Horizon, Greenville, where he worked as a registered nurse. Michael K. Miller, 47, of 1703 Park Lane, was charged by the state Attorney General's office with acquisition of a controlled substance by fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge, which is a felony, and possession of ...

A nurse for Gulf County's health department faces drug charges after investigators say she stole a doctor's identity and forged prescriptions. Barbara McDermid, 60, was arrested on charges of illegally dispensing controlled substances, practicing medicine without a license and identity theft, officials with the state Department of Law Enforcement said Monday. Investigators with the FDLE, Gulf County Sheriff's Office and state ...

A former nurse assistant was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for striking a brain-injured resident of a Carthage nursing home in the groin and face, and forcing water down his nose and into his lungs through his oxygen tubing. Dennis A. Rowe, 39, of rural Carthage, was assessed the prison term by Circuit Judge Gayle Crane at a hearing ...

PLATTSBURGH -- A former nurse's aide from Clinton County Nursing Home has been charged with taking a sexually explicit photo of a 49-year-old male patient with a traumatic brain injury. The New York State Attorney General's Office said Shane Spooner, 33, of Standish Street used a cell phone to take an "inappropriate photo of a nursing-home patient under his care." Plattsburgh ...

DENVER - A surgery technician accused of swapping her dirty syringes for ones filled with powerful painkillers meant for patients, possibly exposing thousands of people to hepatitis C, pleaded not guilty to federal charges Thursday. Prosecutors claim Kristen Diane Parker, 26, is linked to at least 19 cases of hepatitis C in patients who underwent surgery at two Colorado hospitals. She ...

A doctor's assistant allegedly spent $2,000 to stage a dinner honouring herself as 'Nurse of the Year' - when she wasn't even registered as a nurse. Betty Lichtenstein, 56, of Norwalk, Connecticut, was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal impersonation charges yesterday for her stunt. She seemed competent enough to other staff at her clinic - she handled injections and gave ...

The Mayo Clinic fired a male nurse last year for unprofessional conduct and "maltreatment of a vulnerable adult" after he allegedly had sex with a patient in a locked hospital psychiatric unit. She became pregnant. But Minnesota Health Department investigators concluded in a recent report that there were no rule violations because the woman said she had a prior sexual relationship ...