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Garrison Keillor preparing to leave hospital Posted: 3 months ago by Bingo
Garrison Keillor, author and host of the live radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," is to be released Friday from a hospital where he was undergoing tests after suffering a minor stroke, his spokesman said.
Keillor, who turned 67 last month, checked himself into United Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday,
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Hub Hospital First In U.S. To Perform Face Transplants Posted: 2 years 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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Dead Babies Kept In Hospital Refrigerators for 2 Years Posted: 10 months ago by suebe
Warrington Hospital has apologised to a mother whose miscarried baby's body was stored in the mortuary for almost two years without her permission. Leanne McCabe, 25, of Runcorn, Cheshire, found out the body of her son had been frozen when she had a second miscarriage at the hospital last year. More at The News of the World
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Row after Milan hospital removes crucifixes Posted: 3 years 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: 1 year 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: 2 years 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: 2 years 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: 2 years 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: 2 years 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: 2 years 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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Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices Posted: 3 months ago by Bornbad
The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low cots and on the ground, shrouded in white sheets.
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Hospital workers abandon blind patient at park after ex-wife refuses to take him in Posted: 2 years 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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Octuplets Mom Says Hospital May Not Release Babies Posted: 9 months ago by cmgoings
*I know, I know, we are all sick of hearing about this women, but this may be for the best*
Nadya Suleman apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children. Now she may have to prove she can handle the load, or else have hospital officials withhold her newborn octuplets.
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Drop Box for Unwanted Babies Saves Face - and Lives Posted: 2 years 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: 2 years 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: 1 year 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: 2 years 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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Snowplow drivers convoy a man to the hospital Posted: 8 months ago by bingo
Chuck Forbes has battled liver disease for half of his 59 years. When the time finally came for a transplant, a blizzard blocked his route to the hospital — until a corps of snowplow drivers saved the day...
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'It's a boy!,' 'It's a girl!' times eight Posted: 1 year 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: 1 year 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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