https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An investigation is underway in Rome after doctors removed the wrong kidney from an elderly patient, Italian media reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150109/rome-doctors-took-out-wrong-kidney-from-patient Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:08:00 +0100 rome-doctors-took-out-wrong-kidney-from-patient An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in west Africa is recovering but is still in an isolation unit, the specialist clinic in Rome treating him said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141222/italys-ebola-patient-is-getting-better Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:57:38 +0100 italys-ebola-patient-is-getting-better An Italian doctor battling the deadly Ebola virus is in a “stable” condition, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20141127/italian-ebola-patient-in-stable-condition Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:07:00 +0100 italian-ebola-patient-in-stable-condition A mummified body, believed to belong to a patient who went missing in 2011, has been found at Baggiovara hospital in Modena, northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20141031/mummified-body-found-in-modena-hospital Fri, 31 Oct 2014 10:32:00 +0100 mummified-body-found-in-modena-hospital A man in north-eastern Italy was reportedly turned away from a hospital after being told he was too fat for an MRI scanner and should go “where they have facilities for large animals”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140711/hospital-tells-obese-patient-go-to-a-vet-instead Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:16:00 +0200 hospital-tells-obese-patient-go-to-a-vet-instead A radiologist at a hospital in Liguria has been told to pay €150,000 in compensation to an Italian family after missing a tumour on an x-ray of a patient who later died of cancer. https://www.thelocal.it/20140609/italian-doctor-missed-clearly-visible-cancer-tumour Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:36:00 +0200 italian-doctor-missed-clearly-visible-cancer-tumour A doctor in Locorotondo, a town in the southern Italian province of Bari, who took a call from the son of a bedridden patient urgently requiring a tracheostomy tube change at home, is being sued for allegedly failing to assist the woman. https://www.thelocal.it/20140423/italian-doctor-sued-after-refusing-easter-visit Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:45:00 +0200 italian-doctor-sued-after-refusing-easter-visit