SYDNEY
NORTHERN BEACHES HOSPITAL – a good hospital to avoid.
Another unnecessary death, same mistakes keep happening over and over again. Same parents asking for it to ‘never happen again’. But it keeps on happening.
Read Daily Mail for full story from Max Aldred:
Devastated parents demand Northern Beaches take responsibility for their toddler’s death
USA Florida, Miramar Beach —
Beverly Bryan was confident on Aug. 21, 2024 as her husband Bill headed to surgery to have his spleen removed at a Florida hospital.
Bryan, a retired registered nurse, knew the procedure — a laparoscopic splenectomy — was safe, and the surgeon assured her “it would be quick and over and done.”
“You’ll see him back in a few minutes,” she recalled the doctor saying.
It was the last time she saw her husband alive.
Now, nearly six months later, Bryan is suing the surgeon, Thomas J. SHAKNOVSKY, and the hospital where he operated on her husband, accusing them of wrongful death and medical malpractice.
In a 114-page complaint filed on Jan. 30, 2025 in Florida’s First Judicial Circuit Court in Walton County, Bryan alleges that Shaknovsky killed her husband by mistakenly removing his liver instead of his spleen, then participated in a conspiracy — that included the hospital’s CEO and chief medical officer — to cover up the fatal error by doctoring the death certificate and other state records.
Bryan, 70, is also accusing Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Miramar Beach, Florida, of employing the services of a doctor who, before operating on Bryan’s husband, had repeatedly made serious mistakes, including one in 2023 in which he also operated on the wrong organ. That incident, according to state records, resulted in a $400,000 settlement.
READ FULL STORY in The Washington Post by Jonathan Edwards reported in The Nightly:
Surgeon removed wrong organ then covered it up, widow alleges in law suits
MEAG COMMENT: This malpractice goes on in Australia with alarming frequency.
BRISBANE QLD —
Does the incompetence ever stop? Where is the Director of Public Prosecutions?
For God’s sake, googling the procedure defies common sense.
Weekend procedures = week end dangers.
Read more of the ABC Eden Gillespie’s story:
ADELAIDE —
Andrew Knox, who was one of 10 cancer patients given a half dose of chemotherapy a decade ago, fears bungles could be repeated if South Australia Health’s incident reporting system remains in place.
After the death of four relapsed patients, a deputy state coroner recommended the system be replaced.
SA Health is preparing a tender process to replace the incident reporting system.
Read Bethanie Alderson’s full story ABC News
SYDNEY —
Controversial surgeon William MOONEY is set to resume practising medicine after an appeal court rejected the NSW Medical Council’s efforts to stop him.
Two patients died at his hands: (1) Alex TAOUIL in December 2017 and (2) Pouya POULADIAN in March 2018, both in private hospitals.
“Mr Mooney is not a perfect individual – far from it,” said Justice Mark Leeming in the Court of Appeal’s judgment handed down on Tuesday. What an understatement! Did the Court know his history?
Read more of Kate McClymont’s story in the Sydney Morning Herald:
Dr William MOONEY: ‘Flawed’ surgeon set to resume medical practice
LAUNCESTON, Tasmania —
Launceston General Hospital falsified death certificates mean covering-up true cause of death. Commonly known as lying, fraud, dishonesty. This is what health and medical bureaucrats do to protect their political masters. Then they lie to us.
The question to be asked: What is going on in Tasmania? Does it have a government? If so, what is it doing? The bigger question: Who is in charge?
If Tasmania Police will not investigate falsified death certificates, then who will?
They cannot silence everyone. God help Tasmanians.
READ FULL STORY by April McLennan ABC News Stateline
Zane Jamieson’s death at Launceston’s hospital fuelling the fight for answers by his aunt Nicole
TASMANIA Launceston —
The Launceston General Hospital has allowed death certificates to be falsified thus covering-up adverse event deaths of patients. It’s a scandal and a half and the wrong people have been allowed to smother it even further. Isn’t there an Attorney-General of Tasmania?
Now TAS Police won’t investigate criminal wrongdoing. This is outrageous. What’s going on with law and order in Tasmania?
Read more in The Mercury (Hobart):
Manchester UK —
Read more from Sky News UK
June Sylvia Long 1 June 1924—29 June 1994
The June Long Foundation was set up in June Long’s memory to make the public aware that patients are being killed in our hospitals and hospital medicos are covering-up these iatrogenic deaths as a matter of routine. It starts with a lie and ends with more lies.
All one can say is thank God for coroners.
Don’t ever believe what you’re told how your loved one died. Question it furiously. Don’t take no for an answer.
