Texas Medical Board disciplines Houston Methodist Hospital pain management doctor for performing unnecessary surgery
Pain management doctor performs invasive procedure despite normal radiology images
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Surgery
What happens when a plastic surgeon ignores or downplays infection symptoms after surgery?
The Texas Medical Board took a disciplinary action against a Houston plastic surgeon who had his office administrator medically evaluate a patient
What you should know about the common risks of minimally-invasive laparoscopic surgery
Learn why the most dangerous part of a laparoscopic surgery is usually at the beginning
Surgeons admit under oath to operating on wrong kidney
Hospitals and operating rooms must have surgical time-out policies and procedures in place to prevent this type of never-event error
What you should know about unnecessary surgeries
A medical expert believes that Neil Armstrong's death was caused by an unnecessary surgery
What you need to know about cardiac clearance and how it might save your life
A simple, inexpensive test can identify cardiovascular risks that could make surgery dangerous
Hiatal hernia symptoms, surgery risks, and medical malpractice
Hiatal hernia surgery poses the risks of nicked or perforated stomach or bowel, infection, and sepsis
Should I sign informed consent forms in Texas before seeing the doctor?
Painter Law Firm's frequently asked question (FAQ) series
The secret deadly risks of plastic & cosmetic surgery: What you should know
Some common elective procedures have a death rate of 1 in 3,000
Bariatric surgery and the dangerous complication of malnutrition-related Wernicke’s encephalopathy
When a surgeon fails to diagnose and treat Wernicke’s encephalopathy quickly, it can leave the patient with a permanent brain injury