Karen and Brian Williams say the Quebec health system is leaving patients feeling vulnerable and ignored after they were left to wait hours for a doctor who wasn't even there.
Inside Royal Stoke University Hospital, overlooking the cavernous foyer, is a banner featuring 21 flags.
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust said it has some of the shortest waiting times in the south west
‘What our findings indicate is that female and male physicians practice medicine differently, and these differences have a meaningful impact on patients’ health outcomes,’ professor says
Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness caused by the sexually transmitted infection syphilis. Doctors have long known that syphilis can permanently damage a person’s vision and hearing and can even lead to psychiatric changes, but these symptoms are usually associated with infections that have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years. In a new study...
Critics described the lack of continuity as a 'scandal' that hampers care and forces patients to waste time repeating their medical history on every visit.
The Royal College of Radiologists examined data published by NHS England. Some 344,960 CT, MRI and other complex scan results were reported after 28 days in 2023.
An increasing number of Memorial Hermann patients have died while anxiously waiting on transplant lists that could've granted them life-saving organs, according to data from the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network.
Staff at the Kent hospital had wrongly believed that Andrew Wiley, 47, was begging to have testicle surgery during his consultation where he relied on lip reading to communicate.
Self confessed sex addict Dr Tom Plimmer, 40, who appeared on TV show First Dates in 2018, showed a colleague his home made porn videos he had shot in the consulting room of his surgery in Swindon.
At least 16 NHS trusts said patients faced waits of two days or more, with over-65s bearing the brunt of the delays. A FOI request also revealed a 25-fold increase in 12-hr trolley waits.
A Trumbull County doctor was disciplined by the Ohio Medical Board following a complaint by a female patient.