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Hub Hospital First In U.S. To Perform Face Transplants Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama
Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital is the first U.S. hospital approved to start performing face transplants.
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Row after Milan hospital removes crucifixes Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled Posted: 2 months ago by TraumaMamma
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.
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Transgender Woman Refused Breast Implants, Sues Hospital Posted: 9 months ago by muppet
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.
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Man Rides Horse Through Kauai Hospital Posted: 7 months ago by dollyllama
Hospital officials confirmed a horse trotted through Wilcox Memorial Hospital earlier this month.
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Knitting deemed dangerous at hospital Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The rhythmic click-click of knitting needles at one British hospital has become a little less noticeable because officials said the needles may be too sharp.
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Man sees Jesus on hospital ceiling Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
As Pope Benedict XVI spends time in New York, a local hospital is getting attention for a water mark on the ceiling some think looks like Jesus. Picture source
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Inmate Who Fled Hospital Killed in Cemetery Posted: 10 months ago by bevissimo
LAUREL, Md. - An inmate who escaped from a hospital Wednesday, briefly taking a worker hostage and stealing two getaway cars, was cornered hours later in a cemetery by police and killed in a shootout, authorities said.
...Killed in a cemetery, how convenient.
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Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Four hospital workers abandoned a blind patient with diabetes at an Osaka park in September after his former wife refused to take him in.
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Drop Box for Unwanted Babies Saves Face - and Lives Posted: 1 year ago by mitzuzake
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."
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Hospital may lose license for ER lobby death Posted: 1 year ago by kxmk
It was at least her third visit to Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in as many days. “You have already been seen, and there is nothing we can do,” a nurse told her.
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RI hospital group says doc operated on wrong knee Posted: 4 weeks ago by Bornbad
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
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Third wrong-sided brain surgery at R.I. hospital Posted: 11 months ago by dollyllama
"We are extremely concerned about this continuing pattern," Director of Health David R. Gifford said in a written statement. "While the hospital has made improvements in the operating room, they have not extended these changes to the rest of the hospital."
*Maybe this should go in the WTF category!
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'It's a boy!,' 'It's a girl!' times eight Posted: 3 months ago by maxriter
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., suffered no lack of labor during a 17-hour period when 16 babies were delivered, a hospital record.
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Boy in hospital after 'gas lighting' stunt backfires Posted: 2 months ago by AutumnLotus
A 12-year-old has been taken to hospital with burns after blowing up a petrol can while breaking wind.
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Image of Jesus appears in Hospital Window Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
An unexplained image in a hospital prayer garden window moved some people to tears and drew groups of people to a hallway before vanishing, according to witnesses. A crowd inside the Florida Hospital Medical Complex in Orlando snapped photos of the image apparently showing the profile of Jesus Christ crying.
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California teen gives birth in shower, walks to hospital Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord.
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Man Found Frozen To Death Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama
The family said Chaney was discharged from Harper Hospital in Detroit on New Year's Eve and two days later he was found dead several miles away on Longwood Road near Woodward Avenue wearing a hospital gown and bracelet, a T-shirt and shorts.
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Guard shoots at colleague outside Walter Reed hospital Posted: 1 year ago by Moe
Umm,hello? Aren't the "good guys" only supposed to shoot at the "bad guys"? I mean if our freaking HOSPITAL GUARDS cannot get along, we have some serious issues here!
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Baby found after apparent hospital abduction Posted: 7 months ago by bevissimo
SANFORD, Fla. - Police say a 1-day-old baby who was taken from a Florida hospital has been found, and two suspects are in custody.
The baby was abducted from a secure hospital unit today at Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford.
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