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Recent News Mentioning Dr. Teresita Mascardo
A Connecticut plastic surgeon has had her clinic closed for violations which cite mouse droppings on surgical equipment and resealed one-use instruments with blood on them. The state suspended the license for the Connecticut Plastic Surgery Center, run by plastic surgeon Dr. Teresita Mascardo, on Dec. 4. ...
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Harlem Hospital Cardiology Medical Malpractice
Nearly 4,000 tests for heart disease performed over the last three years at Harlem Hospital Center— more than half of all such tests performed — were never read by doctors charged with making a diagnosis, hospital officials acknowledged Tuesday....Read More »
Woman left on operating table sues North Shore Univ. Hospital
A woman left on an operating table waiting for brain surgery filed a lawsuit Thursday against North Shore University Hospital and two neurosurgeons.
'Systemic breakdown' over failed surgery at L.I.'s North Shore: report
Doctors and nurses at a Long Island hospital violated 14 public health regulations in the case of a a 32-year-old mom abandoned in the operating room by two no-show brain surgeons, investigators charged yesterday.
Hospital cited for no-op docs
The state health department has cited North Shore University Hospital for 14 violations after two neurosurgeons failed to operate on a sedated patient lying on an operating table. "When a hospital schedules a patient for surgery, the parient has the right to expect that the surgeon is there and patient will get the appropriate care,"
9/11 workers to get the benefits
Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D/WF-Yonkers) and Assemblyman Mike Spano (D/C/WF-Yonkers) announced that Governor Paterson signed “Jimmy Nolan’s Law”, extending the time that 9/11 workers can file compensation claims for injuries suffered from participating in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery or cleanup operations...
Brain chief dictated report, charged 6G for surgery, but wasn't in OR
North Shore University Hospital and its former neurosurgery chief may be in hot water again - this time for falsely claiming he performed an operation he never did and billing Medicare some $6,000 for it.
Brain chief dictated report, charged 6G for surgery, but wasn't in OR
North Shore University Hospital and its former neurosurgery chief may be in hot water again - this time for falsely claiming he performed an operation he never did and billing Medicare some $6,000 for it.
Lincoln Hospital specializes in hiding fatal errors
Lincoln Hospital has the busiest emergency room of any city-run hospital. It’s also the place where fatal medical errors are most likely to disappear from public view.
The medical blunder that Kings County Hospital failed to report
From 2006 through 2008, Kings County Hospital told the state it had no incidents in which a patient lost a limb or organ due to medical screwup.
Videos expose outrageous lies of employees at Kings County Hospital
The mentally handicapped teen turned up at Kings County Hospital's psychiatric emergency room on a frigid Saturday just before Thanksgiving 2008.
Hospital's records were 'altered and rendered illegible' in patient's death
Staffers at Woodhull Hospital made mistakes in the last moments of Louisa Angus' life — but you wouldn't know it by the records they kept.
Daily News investigates faked records and fatal blunders at city-run hospitals
City-run hospitals faked records and covered up dozens of botched operations, deadly accidents, malpractice and other medical screwups, a Daily News investigation has found.
NY hospital warns of possible hepatitis risk
A hospital in New York state is notifying about 2,800 patients of possible exposure to hepatitis C after learning that a former employee is suspected of exposing nearly 6,000 patients in Colorado to the disease.
Hep C Alert at Hospital
A Westchester hospital is notifying 2,700 patients of possible exposure to hepatitis C after learning that an ex-employee is suspected of exposing nearly 6,000 patients in Colorado to the disease as she fed her addiction to painkillers.