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Las Vegas Man Suing After Discovering Metal Wire Left In His Chest After Surgery

Jun 13, 2019

A jury in Las Vegas is hearing a case this week of a Las Vegas man who was left with a 57-inch metal wire in his body after an angioplasty procedure in 2005.

German Ortiz lived with the wire for over a decade before discovering it.

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Why did he do it?: The strange saga of Dr. Ralph Conti

Jul 01, 2014

Ralph Conti was a popular, successful pediatrician in the prime of his life when he was convicted of fraud and, soon after, died. What drove this promising doctor to experiment on desperate patients?

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