It is the stuff of nightmares, but as many as one in 500 patients wakes up while on the operating table. When patients are questioned about their experience of surgery, many more than previously ...

Fresno heart surgeon Pervaiz Chaudry leaves the courtroom during a break in medical malpractice civil trial in Fresno County Superior Court. Chaudhry is accused of negligence for leaving the operating ...

A plastic surgeon in Northern California went viral over the weekend after video surfaced showing the doctor in traffic court via Zoom while a patient was on his operating table. Dr. Scott Green, who ...

The incident occurred in 2016, but Massachusetts state regulators have just now fined a top Boston surgeon who left a patient awaiting ankle surgery lying on an emergency room operating table, while ...

Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been ...