A Mount Sinai Medical Center employee surrendered Wednesday after police say he performed oral sex on a male patient who was just waking up from anesthesia following surgery.

*Thumbnail is actual mouth from story picked by doggylives 5 months ago

If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive? Hospital death rates are difficult to pin down because some see sicker patient populations than others. Your chances of survival have become a little easier to find, thanks to information included in the government's Hospital Compare Web site. picked by TraumaMamma 2 months ago

In August, a patient died several weeks after a third doctor operated on the wrong side of his brain. Afterward, state health authorities ordered the hospital to take steps to avoid similar accidents in the future picked by Bornbad 3 weeks ago

Obese workers may cost their employers more, filing more workers' compensation claims for injuries on the job, and then more frequently going on to become disabled. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber felt euphoric when he touched down at Sydney's Bankstown Airport just before 8am, becoming the first blind man to fly halfway around the world.

Update on an earlier post. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center agrees to $1 million settlement for it's Christian like act of dumping patient on skid row. picked by pfortnerhaus 4 months ago

Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital is the first U.S. hospital approved to start performing face transplants. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

A severely-ill patient on a strict 'soft food diet' choked to death at a Birmingham hospital after nurses gave him toast. The court was even told that the nurses "believed it was the patient's basic human rights" to have toast if he demanded it. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A top Italian maternity hospital has drawn criticism from right-wing politicians by replacing crucifixes on the walls of its wards with images of the Virgin Mary so as not to offend immigrant women giving birth there. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Commenting on the controversial "baby hatch" at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto, Japan, a hospital official was quoted as saying "Maybe there are some people who are suspicious about it, but we should not pretend not to see them and let them die. Babies are innocent." picked by mitzuzake 1 year ago

A court in N'Djamena, Chad, has sentenced six aid workers from the Zoe's Ark organisation to eight years of hard labour in relation to the kidnapping one hundred and three children and attempting to take them out of the country (mostly into Europe) picked by pocksucket 10 months ago

New restaurant opens in London, Dans Le Noir. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

Crocs, the rubbery, clog-like shoes, have been deemed inappropriate footwear for workers in patient-care areas at a hospital. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

"Recent research shows it could be the grumpy workers who are actually a company's most creative problem-solvers" picked by Nick 2 years ago

Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore. picked by tomphoolry 2 years ago

Hospital patients in Queensland are to be stamped with barcodes in a move to prevent operations being performed on the wrong body parts. picked by muppet 1 year ago

A man, whose identity is witheld, has told how his family doctor to whom he complained about sexual problems was having sex with his wife. picked by maxriter 1 year ago

A transgender woman slapped a Catholic hospital with a lawsuit after she was denied breast-enlargement surgery. She is suing the hospital for charges of discrimination, because of her sex-change operation. picked by muppet 9 months ago

Two Sikh sawmill workers have launched a complaint with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal after they weren't allowed to work because they refused to wear hard hats over their turbans. picked by chinook 6 months ago

From his hospital bed, Michael Gruber, 40, said: "I've got two penises but no wife, but I am hoping when I get rid of one of the penises I will get her back." picked by mitzuzake 1 year ago