When a Murderer Wants to Practice Medicine
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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On this much, mental health and law enforcement experts who observe murder cases agree: Guilt wears many faces.
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An appeal over the murder of a man who died after being left at a hospital is shown on Crimewatch.
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Britain&#39;s doctors are still imbued with a club culture that puts their interests before the patient, a damning report into the activities of the serial killer Harold Shipman declared yesterday.
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A Brazilian doctor charged with manslaughter in an immigrant's liposuction death tried to plead guilty Wednesday, but the judge instead set the case for trial after the doctor contradicted prosecutors.
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People who carry out executions can sue others who disclose their identities, under a new law that followed reports that a doctor who attended Missouri executions had been sued for malpractice more than 20 times.
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A doctor accused of indiscriminately prescribing painkillers that prosecutors say led to seven patient deaths has pleaded guilty to lesser charges and agreed to give up his medical license.
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Doctors prescribing opioids in doses that seems high to narcotics agents and prosecutors are at risk of a trial. And once in the courtroom, anything can happen.
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Fears that money has an undue influence on the practice of medicine are not new. In the 12th century, the Jewish philosopher Maimonides wrote an oath for physicians that included this admonition: ''Do not allow thirst for profit, ambition for renown and admiration to interfere with my profession.&quot;
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Retail clinics grow, and some physicians aren't happy.
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Those treating pain make subjective choices about dosage. When a doctor gets it wrong, is it a mistake or a felony?
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Many people have vowed to avenge the untimely death of a relative. Lawyer and journalist Sidney Zion actually did so -- to the benefit of patients and doctors-in-training nationwide.
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A gruesome murder and an influential defendant make for a riveting courtroom drama
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.
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Doctor treated accomplice injured in first suicide bomb before police shot him dead
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.