In many institutions, when a patient is scheduled for surgery, the patient is contacted before the procedure and given instructions as to how to prepare for the surgery. This may be done by staff from ...

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 ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...