Tag: Doctor

Kenyan doctor conducts brain surgery on wrong patient

NAIROBI: A neurosurgeon at Kenya's largest hospital has been suspended after performing brain surgery on the wrong patient, the hospital said in a statement. The...

Italian doctor visits patients on horseback

Through vineyards stretching as far as the eye can see and shrouded in fog, the thud of hooves pounding the loose earth grows louder....

Larry Nassar hearing halts as father lunges at disgraced doctor

MICHIGAN: A father whose three daughter’s say they were sexually abused by Larry Nassar lunged at the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor in a...

Ex USA gymnastics team doctor Nassar awaits sentence for sexual abuse

MICHIGAN: Disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar faced a sentence of life in prison Wednesday for sexual abuse after a week of...

Olympian Aly abused by team doctor sees US gymnastics as ‘rotten’

LANSING: Olympic gold medallist Aly Raisman blasted US gymnastics officials on Friday for failing to protect her and other women from years of sexual...

White House doctor: Trump is fit for duty, should hit gym

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump passed a test for signs of dementia and is in overall excellent health, but needs to shed weight by...

Trump’s health ‘excellent’, White House doctor says after exam

WASHINGTON: The White House physician pronounced Donald Trump to be in “excellent health” after Trump had his first medical exam as U.S. president on Friday,...

Doctor sacked in Peshawar after nurse accuses him of harassment

PESHAWAR: A doctor at Peshawar's Khyber Teaching Hospital was sacked after a nurse accused him of harassment on Thursday.  The doctor, who had been working...

Chose the wrong words but it’s still harassment : Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

KARACHI: Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on Tuesday came out with an explanation on her recent controversial tweets about an AKU doctor, who had...

Sharmeen gets doctor fired for sending sister FB request and Twitter...

Things got a little weird when Academy award-winning Pakistani director, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy got a doctor fired from a Karachi hospital— apparently for sending her...

How a Pakistani doctor nearly lost his life after treating a...

A Pakistani doctor, currently seeking political asylum in the US, claims he received death threats and was discriminated against at work after he saved a...

PM announces Rs 100m for PIMS ‘brain dead’ doctor

On the directive of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the federal government has announced to release Rs 100 million for treatment of PIMS’ doctor Shahid...

Doctor shot dead in Hayatabad

A doctor was killed by unidentified men at a private clinic on Saturday. The police said that an armed man barged into a private clinic...

US court convicts Pakistani doctor for embezzling $258.5m

Dr Zahid Imran sentenced to 7 years in jail, fined $43.5m for setting up fraudulent medicare scheme offering psychiatric services that were ‘unnecessary or...

Ganga Ram doctor shows muscle on MS’ first day

AMS (Admin) Dr Waqar unleashes security guard, driver on AMS (Medical Store) Dr Sarfraz during new MS’s orientation meeting Sources say Waqar, also a member...

So a doctor can charge as much he wants?

Citizens demand a mechanism to define fee of private medical practitioners Residents of the federal capital have demanded the authorities concerned to prepare a mechanism...

Doctor, cop among seven killed

Rangers arrest five terror suspects, seize weapons   At least seven people, including a doctor and a policeman, were killed in separate incidents on Friday. In Nazimabad,...