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Errors cited in Lap-Band operation
A surgeon cut an Orange County woman's aorta during Lap-Band weight-loss surgery in 2011 and an anesthesiologist failed to detect her hemorrhaging, events that led to her death, according to a Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report. The report...
Tags: Medical Research, Justice System, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice
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What California should learn from the 1-800-GET-THIN saga
Today, 19 months after her death, we may finally have a good idea of what killed Paula Rojeski. According to a lawsuit and public autopsy records, the causes included her doing business with the 1-800-GET-THIN folks and the slicing of her aorta during...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Advertising, Lawyers
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UC to pay $1.2 million to settle suit targeting UCI Medical Center
The University of California has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a federal whistle-blower lawsuit charging falsification of records and poor supervision of patients by UC Irvine anesthesiologists. The suit said anesthesiologists at the university's...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Specialization
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UCI Medical Center suit settled for $1.2 million
The University of California has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a federal whistle-blower lawsuit charging falsification of records and poor supervision of patients by UC Irvine anesthesiologists. The suit said anesthesiologists at the university&...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Specialization
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Pain doctor's office raided in prescription drug abuse probe
Federal authorities Friday raided the office of a doctor suspected of prescribing narcotic painkillers and other widely abused medications to patients who had no legitimate need for them. Undercover agents posed as patients at John Dimowo's offices in...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs, Pain, Chemical Industry, Vicodin (drug)
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HELPED OR HOOKED?
Los Angeles TimesFourteen of Doanh Nguyen's patients have died of prescription drug overdoses since 2005, coroner's records show. But he's not to blame for any of them, he said. His practice in Orange County's Little Saigon caters to pain sufferers of all kinds....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Colleges and Universities, Tylenol (drug), Botox (drug), Arthritis
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Doctor accused of 'gross negligence' in death of Lap-Band patient
The Medical Board of California has faulted a doctor in the 2010 death of a Lap-Band patient who had surgery at a clinic affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign, filing charges that could cause him to lose his license to practice.
The board has...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Allergan Inc., Insurance
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Doctor accuses 1-800-GET-THIN president of identity theft
A Marina del Rey anesthesiologist has filed a lawsuit accusing the president of the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing firm of identity theft for using the doctor's name to establish a corporation that billed insurers without his permission.
Dr. Martin E. Flynn...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Advertising, Companies and Corporations, Allergan Inc.
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It's about time that FDA took action against Lap-Band billboards
It has taken almost two years, but government regulators finally woke up to the idea that those 1-800-GET-THIN billboards plastered all over Southland freeways may be dangerous to your health.
That's the underlying meaning of the action announced Tuesday...Tags: Al Capone, Justice System, Medical Specialization, Trials, Hospitals and Clinics
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Dr. Max Harry Weil dies at 84: pioneer in critical care
Dr. Max Harry Weil, an influential pioneer of critical-care medicine and the founding president of the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine in Rancho Mirage, has died. He was 84.
Weil died of prostate cancer July 29 at his home in Rancho Mirage, said...Tags: Physical Conditions, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Diseases and Illnesses, Surgery
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Pregnancy myths
Tribune staff reporterOnce a woman becomes visibly pregnant, it isn't long before she's being asked extremely personal questions by complete strangers: "Are you going to have an epidural or go natural? "You're not drinking alcohol, are you?" "Have you tried ginger for...Tags: Medical Research, Physical Conditions, Thalidomide (drug), Diseases and Illnesses, Colleges and Universities
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No duh: Surgery success is not linked to phases of the moon
Booster ShotsThe success of coronary artery bypass surgery is not linked to the phase of the moon, physicians rarely turn into werewolves at night and being bitten by a vampire will not make you immortal. Well...the first one is true, according......
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