Medical Mishaps

VOLUME 25 ISSUE 1

October is a month meant to be scary—horror movies on the screens and costumes lining the street. Maybe the changing of seasons itself is what’s scary to some people.

But what about the scary things we don’t realize are happing? The real things? What happens in the places we’re meant to be safest: in hospitals, amongst the people sworn by oath to protect, heal, and tell the truth?

“Before a pregnant woman enters a hospital, a flurry of emotions overwhelms her: excitement to meet her child, doubts of whether she will be an adequate mother, fear of delivery going smoothly… No matter what she, or any patient, is going through, we should not doubt that she will receive the best possible care from the hospital.”

— from article— Lucy Letby: Mad Midwife by Claudia Davis

Family Tree of Fraud: How Did One Man End Up With Over 90 Cildren?

When Jacoba Ballard was 10 years old, she began to speculate that she was adopted — she looked nothing like her family, having blue eyes and blonde hair. Her mother informed her she was not adopted; …

THE CONTENT

Lucy Letby: Mad Midwife

Before a pregnant woman enters a hospital, a flurry of emotions overwhelms her: excitement to meet her child, doubts of whether she will be an adequate mother, fear of delivery going smoothly… No matter what she, or any patient, is going through, we should not doubt that she will receive the best possible care from the hospital.

Dr. Death: A License to Legally Muilate

Duntsch got his undergraduate degree in 1995 and received his M.D. and Ph.D. in 2001 and 2002 from a top spinal surgery program. He then spent six years in a residency at the University of Tennessee studying neurosurgery and general surgery, where he ran two successful labs. According to TIME,…