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hospital stories: 82 news summaries

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 Woman Dies, Ignored,
 on Waiting Room Floor 

Brooklyn hospital staff overlooks ER patient for over an hour

Jul 2, 08 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Recently uncovered surveillance footage shows a woman collapsing in a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital, then lying on the floor for more than an hour while hospital staff ignored her. Esmin Green, 49, had been waiting for treatment for almost 24 hours when she collapsed at 5:32am and lay convulsing on... More »

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New York City • Brooklyn • patient • hospital • negligence • psychiatric treatment center

 Jolie in Hospital, Awaiting Birth 

Jolie's pre-planned admittance to avoid immediate birth

Jul 1, 08 12:04 PM CDT
(AP) - Angelina Jolie has gone into a hospital in the south of France where she expects to give birth to twins. A spokeswoman for the Lenval Hospital in Nice says Brad Pitt's better half is fine and that the actress' admittance to the hospital's maternity wing had been planned for some... More »

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Angelina Jolie • twins • childbirth • hospital • celebrity pregnancy • Nice, France • celebrity parents

 6 Killed as
 Medical Choppers
 Collide 

Helicopters crash as both near Flagstaff hospital with patients

Jun 30, 08 4:50 AM CDT
(AP) - Six people were killed yesterday when a medical helicopter ferrying a patient crashed into another chopper with a patient as they headed for the same northern Arizona hospital. Three people in each chopper—including the pilots and the patients—were killed and a nurse was critically injured. An explosion in... More »

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Arizona • accident • hospital • helicopters

Dungeon Girl Will Make Full Recovery: Docs

Kerstin Fritzl will develop normally, 'happy' to be with family

Jun 11, 08 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A teenager who spent her life imprisoned in an Austrian cellar will recover fully and “develop normally” after major organ failure, said doctors at the hospital where she was treated. Kerstin Fritzl was recently awoken from an induced coma and reunited with her mother and siblings, who now live... More »

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Austria • hospital • reunion • coma • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl • Amstetten, Austria • Kerstin Fritzl

14 More Called Out for Medical Snooping

State says 68 people peeked at celebrities' files at UCLA center

May 13, 08 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fourteen more staffers at the UCLA medical center have been accused of snooping in celebrities’ files, raising the number to 68, the Los Angeles Times reports. A new state report blames UCLA for its lack of privacy protection and for failing to report the snooping to authorities. It also provides... More »

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Britney Spears • privacy • celebrity • hospital • UCLA • confidential information • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • Farrah Fawcett

US Rocket Attack
Damages Iraqi Hospital

28 wounded; fleet of ambulances destroyed in blast

May 3, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - At least 28 people were wounded when US rockets struck near a Sadr City hospital today, destroying a fleet of ambulances, Reuters reports. The US says the attack was targeting a nearby militia “command and control” center. Hospital windows were shattered, but no patients were injured. The attack came... More »

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Iraq • Sadr City • Baghdad • Mahdi Army • hospital • collateral damage

 Docs Pull Off 6-Kidney Swap 

Johns Hopkins' 13-hour 'domino' session goes off without a hitch

Apr 9, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a procedure that took 13 hours and involved more than 100 medical personnel, Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled off the US' first six-way kidney transplant, the Baltimore Sun reports. Six donors provided six patients with working organs in Saturday's so-called "domino" procedure. All 12 were listed in good condition... More »

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organ donor • transplant • hospital • Johns Hopkins University • kidney transplant • organ donation • transplant list

Critics: Nonprofit Hospitals Unhealthily Rich

Tax breaks not paid back in community benefits

Apr 4, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nonprofit hospitals are making more money than for-profit hospitals, and that has many critics wondering why they get such sweet tax breaks, the Wall Street Journal reports. Seventy-seven percent of nonprofits are making money, with at least 25 pulling in more than $250 million a year. Many are spending... More »

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health care costs • hospital • nonprofit • Charles Grassley • tax breaks • for-profit hospital • nonprofit hospital

Equine Visitor Not Quite What Doctor Ordered

Hospital security corrals horse as
it gets off elevator

Mar 24, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Hawaii hospital ejected the relative of a man recovering from surgery after he tried to bring the patient’s favorite pet—a full-grown horse—to visit, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports. Security staff stopped the visitors before they could get to the patient's room; the man was intoxicated, and the... More »

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surgery • horse • hospital • Hawaii • drunk relatives • good intentions • pet hospital visits

Naomi Campbell Leaves Brazil Hospital  

British supermodel
fine after emergency abdominal surgery

Mar 1, 08 8:51 AM CST
(Newser) - A helicopter whisked Naomi Campbell away from waiting paparazzi at a Brazil hospital after a successful operation to remove a cyst from her abdomen, E! Online reports. Doctors, including one of Brazil's top specialists, say the British supermodel is "completely cured" following the emergency surgery. Campbell, 37, is a... More »

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surgery • Brazil • paparazzi • gynecology • celebrity • hospital • Naomi Campbell • supermodel • laparoscopy • cyst

Case Against Transplant Doc Raises Concern

Prosecution claims he killed for organs; others say technique to blame

Feb 27, 08 11:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Charges against a California surgeon for hastening the death of a disabled man so his organs could be harvested for transplants has advocates worried, the New York Times reports. At issue is whether Dr. Hootan Roozrokh ignored protocol in pursuit of organs for transplant or if he misused, or misunderstood,... More »

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organ harvesting • organ transplants • medical malpractice • Stanford University • organ donor • hospital • Hootan Roozrokh • surgeon • cardiac-death organ donations • brain-death organ donations • American Society of Transplant Surgeons • Donate Life America • Betadine • adrenoleukodystrophy • California Transplant Donor Network • United Network for Organ Sharing

Patients Flee London Cancer Hospital Fire

Up to $1 billion in damages after blaze guts leading facility

Jan 3, 08 8:35 AM CST
(Newser) - A huge fire gutted one of the world's leading cancer hospitals yesterday, forcing up to 160 patients and 800 staff to evacuate and causing up to $1 billion in damages. London's Royal Marsden Hospital went up in flames after a small fire in a plant room spread through the building.... More »

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cancer • Gordon Brown • fires • cancer treatment • hospital

6 Hit by Gunfire Leaving
Las Vegas School Bus

1 hurt critically; police suspect at least two gunmen, call in gang unit

Dec 11, 07 7:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Gunfire hit six people as they stepped off a Las Vegas school bus around 2pm today, the AP reports. One adult male was hurt critically and one teenage male seriously after both were shot in the torso, a hospital spokeswoman said. Four others received minor gun shot wounds, and one... More »

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Las Vegas • school shooting • hospital • student • gunman • shooting

Marathoner Who Died Was Hauled to Wrong ER

Collapsed runner's ambulance got lost

Oct 24, 07 11:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Earlier this month at the sweltering Chicago Marathon, the ambulance transporting the runner who died got lost, had to get directions from another ambulance, and eventually ended up in the wrong emergency room. The man was in full cardiac arrest when the ambulance arrived on the scene and was, according... More »

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Chicago • emergency room • Chicago Marathon • hospital • cardiac arrest • running • Detroit marathon deaths

Aussie Miscarriage Fiasco Leads to Calls for Reform

PM on defensive after miscarriage horror in Sydney

Sep 27, 07 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Reports of Australian women left to miscarry in the bathroom of a major Sydney hospital have elicited an outcry for public health reform, even as beleaguered prime minister John Howard defended the system as flawed but good. But an ER physician at the hospital told ABC News that there were... More »

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health care • pregnancy • Australia • hospital • John Howard • miscarriage

Japanese PM Hospitalized as Party Scrambles for Successor

Abe suffers 'exhaustion' after resigning

Sep 13, 07 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is in a Tokyo hospital battling stress and exhaustion a day after announcing his resignation. Abe is expected to be hospitalized for at least three or four days, while his scandal-plagued party fields a replacement and calls for a general election escalate. In his surprise announcement,... More »

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Japan • Shinzo Abe • stress • resignation • Tokyo • hospital • exhaustion

Pavarotti Extends Stay
in Hospital

'Tranquil' tenor to remain a few more days

Aug 14, 07 11:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tenor Luciano Pavarotti has decided to extend his stay in the hospital a few more days, his wife said, saying the star feels “more tranquil” there and denying rumors that he had pneumonia. The opera luminary, who had surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2006, was hospitalized last week when... More »

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cancer • opera • Luciano Pavarotti • tenor • patient • hospital

Chief Justice Checks Out of Hospital

Roberts 'doing fine' after suffering seizure at vacation home

Jul 31, 07 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chief Justice John Roberts left a Maine hospital today in good condition, a day after suffering a seizure of unknown cause. The 52-year-old jurist told President Bush he was doing just fine, reports the AP. He waved as he scooted out of the hospital and headed back to his vacation... More »

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John Roberts • Maine • hospital • seizure • Chief Justice • epilepsy • Hupper Island • US Supreme Court

Chief Justice Takes a Tumble

Roberts taken
to hospital as a precaution after fall at Maine vacation home

Jul 30, 07 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to the hospital in an ambulance this afternoon after falling at his Maine vacation home, the Supreme Court announced. A spokeswoman said he was conscious after the fall, and an EMT told NBC he was alert on the trip to the hospital. The cause... More »

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John Roberts • health • injury • hospital • US Supreme Court

AG Refutes Account of Hospital Visit

Senators assail Gonzales in acrimonious oversight hearing

Jul 24, 07 4:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales today refuted an ex-colleague's dramatic testimony about a 2004 visit to John Ashcroft's hospital bed, but the Senate Judiciary Committee wasn't buying it. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter were openly skeptical of the AG's account of the scene in John Ashcroft's room, and Specter raised the possibility of... More »

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Congress • Alberto Gonzales • Democrats • Republican • Attorney General • John Ashcroft • James Comey • NSA • hospital • testimony • warrantless wiretapping • Deputy Attorney General • George W. Bush

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