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NJ OB-GYN's License Suspended Amid Sexual Abuse Accusations By Two Patients: AG NJ OB-GYN's License Suspended Amid Sexual Abuse Accusations By Two Patients: AG
NJ Ob-gyn's License Suspended Amid Sexual Abuse Accusations By Two Patients: AG A Mercer County OB-GYN had his medical license suspended after he was accused of sexually exploiting two longtime patients during routine exams, authorities said. The state Board of Medical Examiners has temporarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Bruce Pierce, Attorney General Matthew Platkin and the state Division of Consumer Affairs said in a news release on Monday, Dec. 2. Dr. Pierce worked at Delaware Valley OBGYN & Princeton Midwifery in Lawrenceville. His biography was removed from the practice's website as of press time. The doctor's suspension came after tw…

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by Chris Spiker
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Cedar Grove Doctor Has License Revoked: 'Grave Risk To Public' Cedar Grove Doctor Has License Revoked: 'Grave Risk To Public'
Cedar Grove Doctor Has License Revoked: 'Grave Risk To Public' A doctor in Cedar Grove had his license revoked after he traveled to dozens of offices in New Jersey and neighboring states to perform invasive aesthetic procedures with inadequate formal training, the State Attorney General's Office announced. In May, Muhammad Mirza was sentenced to 26 months in prison for participating in a five-year health care fraud scheme to defraud Amtrack.  Mirza was accused of recklessly injecting a hazardous dermal filler into patients seeking breast and penis enhancements — often with extremely harmful results — at dozens of offices in New Jersey, New York, P…

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by Sam Barron
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NJ Hospitals Graded From Safest To Least Safe NJ Hospitals Graded From Safest To Least Safe
NJ Hospitals Graded From Safest To Least Safe A website dedicated to analyzing and publishing data on safety and quality  of hospitals in the US has released new findings. New Jersey comes in at No. 12 in the country, and has 30 hospitals that were graded an A by the Leapfrog study. Each hospital is graded A through D on infections, problems with surgery, safety problems, practice to prevent errors, and doctors/nurses/hospital staff. Click here for the full list of Leapfrog's NJ Hospital Safety Grades.

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by Cecilia Levine
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LAWSUIT: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts LAWSUIT: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts
Lawsuit: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts Three years have passed since Christina Castellanos' breast reduction surgery at Hunterdon Healthcare -- and life hasn't been the same since. The 37-year-old Bound Brook resident was not only left with botched breasts following the May 2018 procedure, but later received a letter from the hospital saying that her doctor -- Andrea L. Strauss -- breached safety protocols and may have exposed her to blood born pathogens due to unsanitary needles. To put it simply, life since the procedure has been hell, said Castellanos. Represented by Scott Leonard of the Leonard Legal Group in Morristown, th…

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by Cecilia Levine
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'Dust Is Settling': Holy Name Nurse Shares COVID-19's Impact On Hospital 'Dust Is Settling': Holy Name Nurse Shares COVID-19's Impact On Hospital
'Dust Is Settling': Holy Name Nurse Shares Covid-19's Impact On Hospital "The dust is settling." That's how Holy Name Medical Center nurse Ashley Fitzpatrick describes the current state of Teaneck hospital, once at the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. Fitzpatrick had been working in the cardiac catheter lab nurse for the last seven years, but was transferred to the coronavirus unit to supplement care during the pandemic. “Since COVID-19 has hit our hospital, we’ve seen most of our focus turn to those patients,” Fitzpatrick told Daily Voice. “Because of that, our volume was low in the other departments, possibly because patients were, understandably, deferri…

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by Valerie Musson
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Bloomfield Parents: Nurse Scalded Genitals, Back Of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy Bloomfield Parents: Nurse Scalded Genitals, Back Of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy
Bloomfield Parents: Nurse Scalded Genitals, Back Of Daughter With Cerebral Palsy Parents from Bloomfield are seeking justice saying their daughter with cerebral palsy was left to suffer when a nurse put her in a scalding shower -- leaving her with burns on her backside and private areas. Maeylines Quinones, 21 -- who uses a wheelchair and cannot speak -- reportedly suffered severe burns after she was placed into burning hot water by her nurse at Bayada Home Health Care, Veronica Sandoval, on Oct. 10, 2019. Sandoval had been using a hoisting device to give Quinones a shower at her Bloomfield home, her parents say. Vanessa Quinones rushed her daughter to t…

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by Valerie Musson