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2 medical aides at W. Phila. abortion clinic are not M.D.’s – as advertised

March 1, 2010 – 8:14 am

Those guys aren’t doctors!
That was the reaction of state authorities yesterday when they tried to verify the licenses of two people listed as medical doctors at Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell’s West Philadelphia abortion clinic, which this week was hit with a series of gruesome allegations.
Steps away from the entrance to Gosnell’s clinic, at 38th Street [...]

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Student dies in lunchtime car accident

February 26, 2010 – 5:36 pm

Wichita police are looking for a light colored SUV that left the scene of an accident that claimed the life of a 16-year old Southeast High student.
Investigators say it happened just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday morning near Lincoln and Woodlawn. School officials said the students were on their lunch hour at the time of the [...]

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Why do doctors still use forceps when they killed our baby?

February 23, 2010 – 7:09 am

With her long eyelashes and black hair, Alexandra was, says her mother Beatrix, ‘the most beautiful thing I could imagine’. The newborn, who weighed 9lb 4oz, had been conceived through IVF after five years of trying (which had involved both parents undergoing surgery) and was a much longed-for child.
So her arrival last June should have [...]

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Man Charged With Homicide in Crash That Killed Girl, Injured Aunt

February 19, 2010 – 8:21 am

A 48-year-old man cited in the fatal crash that claimed the life of a 6-year-old girl this week has been charged with reckless homicide and two counts of aggravated driving under the influence.
Eddie Lumpkin, 48, was driving a vehicle that struck a girl and her aunt in the 7300 block of South Ashland Avenue on [...]

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Crash driver faces wrongful death suit

February 17, 2010 – 3:28 pm

ELYRIA — The family of a 94-year-old Lorain woman killed in a car crash last year has sued the driver of the car who caused the accident.
In a wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday in Lorain County Common Pleas Court, the family of Louise Battistelli accused Jacqueline McGee of negligence in the July 7, 2009, crash.
McGee, [...]

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$2.9 million medical malpractice settlement to family of boy killed during MRI

February 14, 2010 – 1:56 pm

The family of a 6-year-old boy, Michael Colombini, who was killed while he was undergoing an MRI, settled a $2.9 medical malpractice lawsuit against Westchester Medical Center where the boy was accidentally killed. The boys’ parents filed the lawsuit in 2001 and settled right before the lawsuit went to trial.
Michael died in 2001 when [...]

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Woman awarded birth injury compensation for hospital’s negligence

February 13, 2010 – 8:56 am

A woman has been awarded a five-figure birth injury compensation sum after giving birth to a stillborn son.
Louise Stokes was given the amount after the Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust admitted liability for the mistakes that contributed towards her baby’s death.
During Ms Stokes’ pregnancy she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and suffered with high blood pressure [...]

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Family Sues Philadelphia Nursing Home Over Father’s Death from Exposure

February 12, 2010 – 9:31 am

We’ve seen the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation of state-run veterans’ nursing homes. As part of that investigation, the newspaper profiled a nursing home neglect lawsuit filed by a family here in the Philadelphia area. The daughters of Harold Chapman sued the Delaware Valley Nursing Home after the 75-year-old dementia patient died of exposure in December of [...]