The CRNA who pleaded guilty to sexually
assaulting dozens of female patients will
spend his life in prison, but the dental
practice where the attacks took place is
on the hook for the $3.7 million verdict.
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Are you ready? CMS's voluntary patient data collection program for
ambulatory surgery centers and hospital outpatient surgery depart-
ments starts this month. osmag.net/PNV5ug
Last month's death of anesthesiolo-
gist Christopher Robert, MD, remains
a mystery. Dr. Robert, 50, was found
dead along a Minneapolis highway
hours after a work-related holiday
party. osmag.net/xrQG9E
Johnson & Johnson must pay $12.5 million to a woman who suf-
fered severe complications caused by vaginal mesh, one of several
multimillion-dollar verdicts against manufacturers of the implants.
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About 85% of Americans feel
nurses are trustworthy, the high-
est-ranked profession in the
United States. (Don't worry docs,
you came in 3
rd
with 67%.)
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Ethicon Endo-Surgery must pay nearly $80 million to a woman
whose bowel was stapled shut by a defunct stapler, a design flaw
the company allegedly ignored for a decade. osmag.net/WmAf9X
More than 10% of surgical
centers are plagued by
unsafe injection practices.
These lapses expose
patients to needless risk of
such bloodborne pathogens
as hepatitis B virus and
hepatitis C virus.
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A woman was told her husband died of a heart
attack. Now she's claiming that was a cover-up for
the real cause of death: a surgical error.
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Patients who
undergo major joint
or spine procedures
recover just as well at
home as they do at acute
care facilities, researchers
say. osmag.net/XCh8pN
Thirty-two hospitals across the country will pay the government
$28 million after allegedly defrauding Medicare by billing kypho-
plasties as inpatient procedures instead of outpatient ones.
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