It is the stuff of nightmares, but as many as one in 500 patients wakes up while on the operating table. When patients are questioned about their experience of surgery, many more than previously ...

Fresno heart surgeon Pervaiz Chaudry leaves the courtroom during a break in medical malpractice civil trial in Fresno County Superior Court. Chaudhry is accused of negligence for leaving the operating ...

A patient is suing Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut and two anesthesiologists after he allegedly fell off the operating table during surgery. The patient's attorney said the fall happened after ...

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 ...