How Many Millions Are Uninsured, Really? Aug 6, 2009
B) Those who end up NEEDING emergency gall-bladder, appendix, heart sugery, etc. should be covered without causing a deadly financial hardship or ruining their credit. (CBS News)
New drug hypes weight-loss hope Jul 23, 2009
Side effects were few, primarily nausea, headache and constipation, though there were two cases of gall-bladder inflammation and two of seizures. The data build on an earlier trial of about 700 people with similar effects. (AZCentral -- Business)
Military Medical Mistake Disfigures Local Airman... Jul 22, 2009
"It's very hard for us to understand." Last week, 20-year-old Colton Read, who grew up in Arlington and who's now in the U. S. Air Force, went to have laparoscopic surgery to remove his gall-bladder at David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento. His mother, Shelly Read-Miller says he wasn't worried. (The Drudge Report)
Doctor fined Rs 5L for woman's death Mar 29, 2009
The panel directed them to pay the money within one month's time to Nitin Verma whose wife Puja had died in September, 2005 due to an overdose of anaesthesia before the operation for removal of her gall-bladder stones began. The Commission, however, exonerated Atul Wadhwa, the surgeon, of the medical negligence charge and deficiency in service in connection with the death of the woman patient. (India Times, India)
Derek and Addison face off on Grey's Feb 20, 2009
Dunaway we go: Faye Dunaway played Dr. Campbell, an older physician Cristina considered well past her prime, and who had botched a gall-bladder surgery performed conventionally rather than laproscopically. It became clear that it was time for Campbell to retire, which she finally did, but not before lowering the boom on Cristina, predicting a future much like her own, where the end of surgery would be the end of everything. (MSNBC -- Television)
