Medical Malpractice News

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Calayan couple denies allegations over cosmetic surgery
Perjury rap slapped vs Calayan over deformed penis case

Admin charges recommended vs 3 doctors, nurse

CEBU CITY, Philippines–A committee tasked to investigate the posting on YouTube of an unauthorized video of rectal surgery performed on a patient at the government-run Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City has recommended the filing of administrative charges against three doctors and one nurse in a decision immediately protested by the victim as [...]

Pinoy nurse widower fights deportation in UK

Britain is deporting the Filipino husband of a nurse who died in 2004 in what was believed to be a case of medical malpractice.
Arnel Cabrera, 38, was given until the end of February to pack his things and return to the Philippines upon completion of the inquest proceedings on the case involving the death of [...]

Doctor Guilty of Medical Negligence

By Ran Reznick
Last Update: 15/11/2004
A Health Ministry disciplinary committee has found a local doctor who prescribed steroids for "Mr. World" guilty of serious medical negligence.
This is the first time that an Israeli doctor has been charged with medical negligence for prescribing bodybuilding drugs, and the first time the Health Ministry has officially declared that high [...]

Quadruplets’ kin want to press raps

The Inquirer News Service
THE CALISAAN couple Saturday told President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that they are bent on pursuing charges against the staff of the Manila Central University (MCU) Hospital that allegedly turned them away, resulting in the death of their quadruplet babies.
"All we want is justice for my babies," the mother, Jocelyn, told the President. "We [...]

Court orders two Cebu doctors to pay P1.3 M for death of child

By MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR.
November 24, 2004

CEBU CITY — After 12 years of fighting in court, the family of an eight-year-old boy here finally got the justice they wanted when the court found two doctors guilty of gross negligence that allegedly resulted in the death of the child.
The Regional Trial Court (RTC) here convicted Dr. [...]

Hospital, Doctor Face Suit

Monday, August 30, 2004
By Erwin Ambo S. Delilan
A CAMERAMAN of RPN-TV 8 will file charges against a physician of Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod for medical negligence.
Elizalde "Nonoy" Calinao of Purok Mahigugma-on, Barangay Pahanocoy told Sun.Star Bacolod he will file charges against Dr. Sharon Soguilon, an obstetrician-gynecologist whom he said placed his [...]

Widower blames QC docs, nurses

Posted: 11:19 PM (Manila Time) Nov. 10, 2004
By Tina Santos
Inquirer News Service
FIVE doctors, three nurses and a technician of the World Citi Medical Center (formerly the Quezon City Medical Center) have been charged with negligence before the Quezon City prosecutors’ office for the death of a woman who gave birth at the hospital last year.
Charged [...]

Stiff Penalty vs Medical Malpractices Sought

December 28, 2004
By BEN R. ROSARIO
QUEZON CITY — Determined to leave no room for negligence in medical practice, senior administration congressmen have urged Speaker Jose de Venecia to place on priority bills seeking to establish a Medical and Health Care Liability law that would impose stiff penalty on medical malpractice and illegal medical practice.
The [...]

3 Docs of St. Luke’s Face Malpractice Complaints

By Ronnie E. Calumpita, Correspondent
 
THREE doctors are facing charges of criminal negligence and medical malpractice before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office for an allegedly failed retina surgery they performed on a executive of the Viva Entertainment Co., at the St. Luke’s Medical Center.
Rolando Ferrer, a brand manager of the entertainment firm and barangay councilman of [...]