Dr. who removed wrong lung practicing again

The doctor who caused the death of a patient at the Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, NJ, by removing the wrong lung some 10 years ago -- and then tried to cover it up -- is practicing surgery again, according to news accounts. The Jersey Journal reports that the physician, Dr. Santusht Perera, was practicing this time at Hoboken University Medical Center following a six-month "active" suspension

Woman with head injury waited hours in ER

Stories abound of long waits in hospital emergency rooms and ensuing tragedy. Among the latest is a California case in which a woman waited in an ER for hours with a pellet from an air rifle in her brain before being transferred to another hospital for surgery. The result: Jessica Ramirez remains in a vegetative state in a North Hollywood nursing home. Ramirez would have been fine, her attorney