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Two judges on the panel that awards the Nobel prize for medicine have been asked to resign:
Two judges have been asked to leave a panel that picks the Nobel prize for medicine in a scandal surrounding a disgraced Italian transplant surgeon. The decision to drop Harriet Wallberg and Anders Hamsten came after the Swedish government sacked the entire board of the prestigious Karolinska Institute, where the scientist worked.
Paolo Macchiarini was seen as a leading specialist on windpipe transplants. But two of his patients died and he was accused of falsifying his work record. Dr Macchiarini denies all the charges against him.
The two judges who lost their positions on the Nobel panel have both served as heads of the Karolinska Institute, and were among several individuals suspected of ignoring warnings about the Italian windpipe scientist.
Also at Reuters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:28AM
2 patients died, and then everyone tried to cover it up and pretend it didn't happen.
Those disgraced friends of his trying to sweep it under the rug despite warnings, need to be removed from the medical profession. They are the last people you want handing out top awards.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:36AM
Did no one stop to think maybe there is risk of death involved in any major surgery?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @04:15AM
According to lawyers, unless you tell the person they could die, then death is legally an impossibility. If someone dies crossing the road their family could probably sue the government for not telling them that crossing the road can be lethal. Maybe they could go so far as to ban the specific kind of vehicle that was responsible for it, if they the victim was a minority group member, or if the driver was muslim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 07 2016, @02:53PM
But what is the risk of death?
1 in 100?
1 in 1000?
What if you are told it's 1 in 1000, but really it's 1 in 50 and the deaths have been covered up.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday September 07 2016, @07:15PM
AFAICT, when a patient is given a statistical chance for a poor result by a doctor the statistic is invented on the spot by "gut feeling", and is biased toward getting you to act the way they want you to act. I have definitely observed direct lies based around getting the patient or family to behave in the desired manner. Usually there is really a good reason that they want you to act that way, but you can't trust them to tell you what the reason is, their "bedside manner" is designed to get you to act in the desired way rather than to convey true information.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.