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When a convenience store gasoline pump caught fire after being hit by a pickup truck and exploded recently, it killed one woman and injured at least one other person The woman, reported as 18-year-old Whitney Hendrickson of Colorado Springs, died as she was pumping gas when the fire erupted. She reportedly became trapped between the pump and a minivan. An SUV driver, who reportedly caused the pickup to crash in the first place, was treated at Memorial Hospital for bruises….

Facing possible charges for the mix-up, a Brooklyn hospital confused a live patient with a recently deceased one, causing a family a great deal of grief in the process. Ninety-three-year-old Ella Abrams had been admitted to Kingbrook Jewish Medical Center when she had trouble breathing. When concerned relatives called for an update on her condition, they were told by hospital staff that she had expired. Abrams great-granddaughter reported to the hospital to retrieve her things and found her in bed….

Thirty-four-year-old Ryan Arnold went into cardiac arrest and fell into a coma after surgery to remove part of his liver – which he was donating to his brother to save him from a life-threatening liver disease. Arnold died four days after the surgery. As the Denver-area hospital begins its investigation into the incident, the hospital has halted all live liver donations, reports say. Ironically, the hospital is the site of both the first liver transplant, which took place in 1963, and…

A one-year-old girl died recently when she drank a glass of water which also contained silver cleaning fluid. Identified as Triza Manlapig was declared deceased by Ospital Maynila, in The Philippines after her parents, Crisanto Manlapig and Mirriam Mabingnay, refused to let the police investigate their daughter’s death, insisting it was an accident. Manlapig signed a formal waiver to resist having his child’s death probed, believing his daughter accidentally drank the silver cleaner which had been mixed into a glass…

  Recent reports suggest that 195,000 people in the U.S. die annually due to preventable hospital medical errors. The report, based on a recent study of 37 million patients from the years 2001-03, looked specifically at the mortality and economic impact of medical errors and injuries which occurred during hospital admissions nationwide. The study, compiled by HealthGrades, found that medical errors caused up to 98,000 deaths annually and should be considered a national epidemic. The HealthGrades study found an associated…