A routine surgical procedure ends up with a doctor giving a patient a good smack on the head. According to Reuters

A sport utility vehicle rammed into an operating room toward the end of a cataract procedure while it was trying to pull out of a parking space in New Jersey. No one was injured, but Dr. Bernard Spier says that if the accident had happened moments earlier, it could have hurt the patient's eye, The Associated Press

Dr. Akiva Abraham of Clifton Park, NY is in a heap of trouble with the New York Board for Professional Medical Conduct after being handed down a punishment for having sex in a hospital waiting room and inducing a pregnant patient's labor so he could keep his vacation plans booked. The Board found Dr. Abraham morally unfit to practice medicine as well as guilty of practicing medicine negligently, filing false reports and failing to maintain accurate records.

A physician is found negligent in a medical malpractice lawsuit claiming the doctor lost a surgical needle in a patient's abdomen and then closed the opening after he couldn't find it. Dr. Douglas M. Heymann is found liable for the incident during a hernia surgery in 2001. The patient, 55-year-old Christopher Faas, now has the needle lodged in his liver, where it will remain.

The founder of a company specializing in running answer services for doctors is accused of trying to oust the competition by hacking into that firm's computer. Whenever patients tried to reach a physician, they were greeted with a busy signal or erotic moaning. Gerald Martin, 37, is charged with computer tampering and possessing a forged instrument. If convicted, he could face up to seven years in prison.