A Texas anesthesiologist was arrested Wednesday and charged with tampering with a consumer product causing death and intentional drug adulteration. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr, 59, allegedly injected nerve blocking agents and other drugs into IV bags at a local surgery center between May 26 and August 24 causing multiple cardiac emergencies, including one death, the …
On Friday, the Florida Board of Medicine barred a doctor from performing Brazilian butt lifts following last year’s death of a patient he did the surgery on. The Miami Herald reported that Dr. John Sampson, who works at Seduction Cosmetic Surgery in Coral Gables, was allowed to keep his medical license. In addition to the …
A California doctor who was arrested this month for allegedly poisoning her husband with Drano was ordered on Thursday to stay away from their two young children. An Orange County judge denied visitation for dermatologist Yue Yu, 45, who was arrested on August 4 for allegedly tampering with her husband’s drinks. The husband provided footage …
A New York doctor who was scheduled to be sentenced next month for sexually assaulting six patients was found dead in a jail shower on Monday in an apparent suicide. A source close to the matter told WNBC that neurologist Ricardo Cruciani, 68, was found unresponsive in the shower area at Rikers Island jail. A …
A Florida dentist was arrested last week for the fourth time to face charges that he inappropriately touched female patients. Charles Stamitoles, 65, has been allowed to continue his Pensacola practice but was ordered after his last arrest in June to see only male patients, WEAR reports. The latest arrest, on Friday, charges Stamitoles with …
A Utah neurosurgeon was arrested last week for allegedly groping an unconscious patient during a surgery last October. Bryson Swain Smith, 65, has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, according to KSTU. Court documents say a person assisting with the October 11, 2021, surgery reported Smith. According to the documents. Smith, who …
A lawsuit filed earlier this month accused a Texas hospital of mistakenly performing a partial vasectomy on a 4-year-old boy who was to undergo surgery for a hernia. According to the Houston Chronicle, the lawsuit stated Texas Children’s Hospital Dr. Susan Jarosz recommended surgery to treat a hernia located in the boy’s scrotum that caused …
A nurse is currently on trial in Tennessee, accused of negligence for allegedly giving an elderly patient the wrong medication in 2017, causing her death. KHN reported that RaDonda Vaught, 38, a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, mistakingly injected Charlene Murphey, 75, with vecuronium bromide — a paralyzing drug — when she was …
A federal jury convicted a former Wisconsin dentist of intentionally damaging patients’ teeth to collect insurance money for fixing them. Scott Charmoli, 61, gave patients more than 1,600 crowns over 20 months, prosecutors said — a rate of 32 crowns per 100 patients, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. An insurance company executive testified during the trial …
A California police officer’s bodycam video appears to show last month’s incident which paramedics reportedly refused to enter a care facility for a man who stopped breathing. KTTV reported that the November 11 incident occurred at Rialto Post Acute Care Center and the man suffering the medical emergency, Joseph Angulo, 56, ultimately died at a hospital. …
A Florida hospital said last week that it fired a nurse in their neonatal intensive care unit, weeks after she allegedly mocked a newborn on social media and posted images of the baby on social media. Jackson Memorial Hospital confirmed Sierra Samuels’ termination to WFOR. Last month, Sierra Samuels reportedly wrote on social media that her …
A woman sued a New York gynecologist this weekend, alleging he secretly used his sperm to impregnate her mother in 1985. According to the New York Post, Morgan Hellquist, 35, never knew her biological father, as she was conceived through artificial insemination. However, Hellquist’s mother believed the sperm used to impregnate her came from a …
