FAYETTEVILLE, NC (WTVD) -- The North Carolina Medical Board says doctors and interns at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center attempted to induce labor on a patient, but when that didn't work, they performed a cesarean section only to find out there was no baby.
The incident happened in November 2008, but the state medical board spent the past year reviewing the case. In January, they issued the two doctors involved letters of concern.
ABC11 Eyewitness News spoke with one of the doctors involved who explained how something so bizarre could have happened.
Doctor Gerianne Geszler was in charge of the doctors on duty at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center the night of the incident.
Geszler says several doctors had examined and attempted to induce labor on the patient for several days before the C-section incident.
"They did an epidural on her and when they opened up and made the incision, they saw a non-pregnant uterus," Geszler said.
At that point the doctors "closed her back up."
Doctor Dorette Grant is the physician who performed the C-section.
The NC Medical Board issued her a letter of concern that said in part, "you attempted to perform a cesarean section delivery on Patient A after a failed attempt at induction of labor."
"At the time of surgery, it was discovered that Patient A was not pregnant," Board President Donald E. Jablonski said in the letter.
Dr. Geszler says an intern made the original diagnosis.
"And so she said she did an ultrasound and she said no heart beat," Geszler said. "So [the patient] convinced the resident that she wanted to be induced at Cape Fear Valley, so the resident said can I induce here and I said okay."
According to the medical board, the initial diagnosis was made by healthcare providers without the necessary experience to make the appropriate diagnosis.
"Your inappropriate reliance on their diagnosis and the failure to conduct your own examination were contributing factors in the unnecessary attempt at a caesarian delivery," said Jablonski in a letter to Geszler.
The patient was actually suffering from pseudocyesis, symptoms associated with pregnancy even though they are not pregnant. The false pregnancy can be caused by changes in the body and hormones, emotional distress or an endocrine disorder.
The hospital administration didn't want to comment on the incident.
Meanwhile, both doctors continue to practice in Fayetteville. Dr. Geszler is still a gynecologist, but doesn't deliver babies anymore.
Doctor Grant is still an OBGYN, but she was unable to speak with ABC11 Wednesday, because she was busy delivering two babies
LOS ANGELES – The tan Armani suit, white shirt and gold tie that O.J. Simpson wore on the day he was acquitted of murder have been acquired by the Newseum in Washington, D.C., for a display exhibit on the "trial of the century", the curator of the museum of news said Tuesday.
"For us, it's a piece of news history that we will include in our collection of objects relating to the trial," said Carrie Christofferson, the curator who was involved in negotiations to obtain the suit.
Mike Gilbert, Simpson's former manager who has had possession of it, said he will fly to Washington and hand deliver the ensemble to the Newseum next week.
"I hope it will be displayed in a way that will help people ponder the legal system and celebrity," said Gilbert. "I'm happy that it will go somewhere where people can see it and remember where they were that day in history."
The acquisition ends a 13-year legal battle between Gilbert and Fred Goldman, the father of the man Simpson was charged with killing in 1994.
Both men claimed the right to the clothing Simpson was wearing Oct. 3, 1995, when he was acquitted of killing ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, after a televised trial that riveted the nation. The acquittal was viewed by millions on live TV.
Gilbert came up with the idea of a donation to a museum. He has kept the suit, shirt and tie in storage since shortly after Simpson's acquittal.
The suit was first offered to the Smithsonian Institution, but the museum said it was not appropriate for its collection. Gilbert said the Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington also had been trying to acquire the suit, but the parties decided the appropriate venue was the Newseum.
Christofferson said it will be shown along with a collection of newspaper headlines, press passes, reporters' notebooks and equipment used to televise the notorious trial.
"It will help us tell the story of this massive trial of the last century," she said.
Goldman's attorney, David Cook, said he was pleased with the resolution in which no one will profit from the suit.
"People will ask me what Fred Goldman gets from this," Cook said. "It's not money, it's not vengeance. It's the enshrinement of the painfully inexplicable.
"It does further Fred Goldman's goals because it keeps the story in front of America and, to that degree, it's a success, as much as one can find any success in this terrible story," Cook said.
Simpson attorney Ronald P. Slates said the former football star and actor, who is in prison in Nevada, was kept informed and agreed to the donation.
"We are very happy to have participated in this amicable resolution of this lawsuit," said Slates. "This is an important part of the history of American jurisprudence. This way, nobody profits and the American public gets to view a centerpiece of this historic event."
Ironically, Simpson, 62, is serving a minimum nine-year prison sentence in a case indirectly involving the suit. He was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas in October 2008 after a botched heist to retrieve his memorabilia he said was stolen by dealers. Witnesses said Simpson believed the suit was among the items offered for sale in a hotel room but it was not there.
Fans of Drake's are going to be treated to a preview of yet another track off of his Thank Me Later LP, dropping June 15, when they go to his Away From Home Tour this spring. The 23-year-old is performing the first verse of the much-anticipated new song "Fireworks" at his concerts.
The recently freed T.I. said his next album (due August 24) will be more about "feelings" than his last project, Paper Trail, which he described as driven by "thoughts." The Atlanta rapper has said fans can expect "classic T.I."
CHICAGO — When the body of Chicago's school board president was found partially submerged in a river last fall, a bullet wound to the head, cameras helped prove it was a suicide.
Friends had speculated someone forced Michael Scott to drive to the river before shooting him — and maybe even wrapped his fingers around the trigger.
But within days, police recreated Scott's 20-minute drive through the city using high-tech equipment that singled out his car on a succession of surveillance cameras, handing the image from camera to camera. The video didn't capture Scott's final moments, but it helped convince police his death was a suicide: He wasn't followed. He wasn't following anyone. He never picked up a passenger.
The investigation offered a riveting demonstration of the most extensive and sophisticated video surveillance system in the United States, and one that is transforming what it means to be in public in Chicago.
In less than a decade and with little opposition, the city has linked thousands of cameras — on street poles and skyscrapers, aboard buses and in train tunnels — in a network covering most of the city. Officials can watch video live at a sprawling emergency command center, police stations and even some squad cars.
"I don't think there is another city in the U.S. that has as an extensive and integrated camera network as Chicago has," said Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security secretary.
New York has plenty of cameras, but about half of the 4,300 installed along the city's subways don't work. Other cities haven't been able to link networks like Chicago. Baltimore, for example, doesn't integrate school cameras with its emergency system and it can't immediately send 911 dispatchers video from the camera nearest to a call like Chicago can.
Even London — widely considered the world's most closely watched city with an estimated 500,000 cameras — doesn't incorporate private cameras in its system as Chicago does.
While critics decry the network as the biggest of Big Brother invasions of privacy, most Chicago residents accept them as a fact of life in a city that has always had a powerful local government and police force.
And authorities say the system helps them respond to emergencies in a way never before possible. A dispatcher can tell those racing to the scene how big a fire is or what a gunman looks like. If a package is left sitting next to a building for more than a few minutes, a camera can send an alert.
Cameras have recorded drug deals, bike thefts and a holiday bell ringer dipping his hand into a pot outside a downtown store. Footage from a camera on a city bus helped convince a suspected gang member to plead guilty to shooting a 16-year-old high school student in 2007.
In the death of the school board president, the cameras helped diffuse mounting suspicion and anger.
"It really closed that piece of the puzzle," police Superintendent Jody Weis said. "We don't know what was going through his head, but we definitely know he was alone."
The network began less than a decade ago with a dozen cameras installed in Grant Park to deter violence during the annual Taste of Chicago festival. It now includes private cameras as well as those installed by a variety of public agencies.
While authorities won't say exactly how many cameras are included, with 1,500 installed by emergency officials, 6,500 in city schools and many more at public and private facilities, nobody disputes an estimate of 10,000 and growing. Weis said he would like to add "covert" cameras, perhaps as small as matchboxes.
City officials from around the world have visited Chicago to see the system and how effective it is.
Chicago police point to 4,000 arrests made since 2006 with the help of cameras. And, an unpublished study by the Washington-based Urban Institute found crime in one neighborhood — including drug sales, robberies and weapons offenses — decreased significantly after cameras were installed, said Nancy La Vigne, director of the institute's Justice Policy Center.
"It does stop people from coming out and acting the fool," observed Larry Scott, who lives in one of the city's last remaining public housing high rises.
He said residents rarely complain, unless they get caught for a minor offense or the cameras fail to record a violent attack.
"People were upset when that boy was killed by the 2-by-4 and there were no pictures," he said, referring to the beating death of a high school student that was recorded by cell phone but not city cameras last year.
Police say they usually hear from Chicago residents about the cameras only when they want one installed in their neighborhood or worry one will be removed. Such a claim is supported by an unlikely source: The American Civil Liberties Union, which has criticized the use of cameras as an invasion of privacy and ineffective crime fighting tool.
"It does appear that people only object is when they get a ticket (because of a camera) for running a red light," ACLU spokesman Edwin Yohnka said.
Although courts have generally found surveillance cameras placed in public don't violate individuals' privacy, Yohnka said they could too easily be misused.
"What protections are in place to stop a rogue officer from taking a highly powerful camera and aim it in a way to find or track someone who is perhaps a former love interest or something like that?" he asked.
Aric Roush, director of information services at the city's 911 center, responded that dispatchers see nothing officers wouldn't see if they were on the scene.
"You can't afford to put a police officer on every single corner (and) it is a lot more cost effective and efficient to put a camera where you don't have eyes," he said.
Chicago residents tend to be tough on crime and are likely to support any tool police use, said Paul Green, a Roosevelt University political science professor. Many literally applauded the officers who swung billy clubs at protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, he recalled.
Mayor Richard Daley, he said, "could put 10,000 more cameras up and nobody would say anything."
Former Playboy centerfold Tanya Beyer is no longer the fugitive kind.
Beyer, now 38, faces felony charges for trafficking in the powerful prescription painkiller Oxycodone, according to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Miss February of 1992 was nabbed in Florida on March 24 after being on the lam for six months. She is presently jailed in Palm Beach.
Beyer was caught after investigators received tips that the former pinup was “doctor shopping,” or illegally withholding information from physicians in order to obtain medication from multiple sources.
In an affidavit, cops allege she was filling prescriptions for Oxycodone at least three Florida pharmacies from different doctors. The police report noted Beyer’s history of lying to doctors in order to get a hold of the prescription pills.
The aged brunette beauty, still lithe at 5’9 and 125 pounds, was arrested after the police declared her a fugitive last October following her failure to make a court date. Authorities reached out to the public to held Beyter to justice via the Palm Beach Crime Stoppers program.
Beyer has also appeared in numerous Playboy videos in the mid 1990s including “Playboy”: Wet & Wild IV” and “Playboy Playmate Private Pleasures.”
PHARRELL WILLIAMS scrapped 27 songs before coming up with the right sound for N.E.R.D's latest album - because none of the new material was "good enough".
The group is preparing to release its first album since 2008's Seeing Sounds, and Williams admits the studio process left the band with a mountain of work they didn't want to use.
After dumping a staggering 27 tracks, the hip-hop trio started afresh - and focused on creating a sound tailored specifically for women.
Williams says,"We scrapped 27 records because they weren't good enough, they sounded great - but what were they saying? So we went back in (to the studio) and just focused on feeling. It's almost like we did this whole entire album with our eyes closed, not because it was that easy but because it was that important to reconnect to what we feel and I would say this album is like scrapping everything and starting with nothing.
"The music has been especially tuned in frequencies to speak to women. Women will literally feel this. We are doing some other next level experimentation with this music... and it's the sexiest thing that I could ever give to a woman."
Two women have been arrested after being suspected of trying to smuggle the body of a dead relative onto a flight to Germany.
The pair were reported to have told staff at Liverpool John Lennon airport that the 91-year-old man was asleep, after pushing him into the terminal in a wheelchair and covering his face with sunglasses.
But their attempt to get the man on board a flight to Berlin ended in their arrest on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.
Police are investigating claims the women had ferried the man's body in a taxi from their home in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
A statement from Greater Manchester police said: "At 11am on Saturday 3 April 2010, police at Liverpool John Lennon airport were alerted to the death of a 91-year-old man in the terminal building. Two women aged 41 and 66 were arrested on suspicion of failing to give notification of death.
"They have been released on bail until 1 June 2010. The coroner has been informed and police are continuing with their inquiries."
MONTCOAL, W.Va. -- Rescue teams planned to search again Tuesday for four workers missing in a coal mine where a massive explosion killed 25 in the worst U.S. mining disaster in more than two decades, though officials said the chances were slim that the miners survived, and the search may not be able to start again until evening.
The suspended rescue mission would resume after bore holes could be drilled to allow for toxic gases to be ventilated from Massey Energy Co's sprawling Upper Big Branch mine about 30 miles south of Charleston, state and federal safety officials said
Gov. Joe Manchin said at an early morning news briefing that while drilling on at least one of the three holes was slated to begin soon, it would take perhaps 12 hours before the drilling was complete and rescue teams could be sure of their safety in the mine, meaning the search wasn't expected to resume before 6 p.m.
"It's going to be a long day and we're not going to have a lot of information until we can get the first hole through," Manchin said.
The drills need to bore through about 1,100 feet of earth and rock, he said.
"All we have left is hope, and we're going to continue to do what we can," Kevin Stricklin, an administrator for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said at a news conference. "But I'm just trying to be honest with everybody and say that the situation does look dire."
Brick City's own PURE has emerged as R&B's newest force to reckon with. The singer/songwriter is making his name known in the industry and among music lovers with hits like his single "Sample" featuring Red Cafe, off his recently released mixtape i Am PURE.
"Sample" is available now on iTunes. For more PURE, including hot tracks, photos and behind the scenes footage, visit www.iam-pure.com.
(AllHipHop News) Yonkers, New York rapper and Lox member Styles P. has announced he is releasing a new mixtape with E1 Music this May.
The mixtape, titled The Ghost Dub-Dime, is the latest project from the rapper, who also recently inked a book deal with Random House to release a fictional novel titled Invincible.
In addition to the book, Styles P. will drop a soundtrack for the novel, which is due in stores and on StylesP.net on June 1st.
“I am staying in tune with the streets and providing bars that most rappers won’t,” Styles said of The Ghost Dub-Dime.
The first single from the mixtape is titled “That Street Life,” which features Raleigh, North Carolina singer Tyler Woods.
Styles P. is also in the recording studio working on a new solo album, in addition to a new album from his group The Lox.
“I’m proud to be operating as an independent where I have total control of my project,” Styles P. said of his independence
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Aside from controversy with newcomers and over the title of his upcoming album, Ice Cube also raised eyebrows recently when he discussed his situation with former Westside Connection partner Mack 10.
The pair haven't spoken or worked together in years. But recently, when asked if he'd ever reconcile with Mack, Cube said anything's possible, but for him to even consider it, Mack 10 would have to "kiss the ring first".
Of course, Mack 1-0 heard about the comment, and addressed it in a recent interview with AllHipHop.com, saying it made him laugh.
"I laughed. I see that he's taking his comedy to the next level now," the rapper said. "When I heard the 'kiss the ring' comment, I just had to laugh because that's comedy. That's where I'm at with it. I don't know what he's tripping off of.
"I guess it's more of a big deal than what I thought it was," Mack later added.
Many have debated about what the feud between Mack and Cube was over, but both artists have never clearly explained their beef. All we've heard is that it was over an argument between Mack's people and a member of Cube's family.
The Inglewood rapper confirmed rumors, but even to this day, says he doesn't understand how Cube could break up the Westside Connection trio over it.
"I didn't do anything to him and he didn't do anything to me. We had an argument and I guess it was taken the wrong way because his wife was present," Mack 10 explained. If she wasn't there, we would probably still be doing records. His brother-in-law was disrespectful in a certain way ...
"It was over his disrespectful brother-in-law and I guess that's what he meant when he said that I crossed the line or the family line," he continued. "I didn't cross any line. He (the brother-in-law) got into it with several of my people. To keep it real with you, I don't know what dude is tripping off of. Whatever happened that night, it wasn't worth The Westside Connection not doing anymore records together."
Mack 10 claims that even before the argument took place, the tension was brought to Cube's attention in an attempt to diffuse things, but he chose not to address it. When things finally escalated into an argument, Cube stood by his brother, and cut Mack off.
"It was brought to Cube about three or four times before the bullsh** happened," he explained. "If I bring something to you three or four times and you don't do anything about it -- I mean just because a kid is your kid doesn't mean he has the right to go spitting about anybody. The argument and the brother-in-law wasn't worth throwing away the Westside Connection over in my opinion."
Despite the recent long history between the pair, Mack says he's not worried about Ice Cube or possible reunion with the Westside Connection. At the present moment, he's focused on his Hoo Bangin' Records label and its next release, a collaborative album with Glasses Malone called Money Music, set to drop the same day as Cube's upcoming album, I Am The West.
Some people may see Ice Cube's statement that he is the West and think he's being arrogant. The fact is he's been saying it for a while and nobody has disputed it.
The man's track record speaks for itself. In an era where fans are quick to call their favorite rappers legends, there's no denying that Cube has actually earned that title.
In this video Cube explains the title of his forthcoming album 'I Am The West'.
50 Cent's latest movie looks like a very good one judging from this trailer.
The Joel Schumacher directed film centers on the life of a young drug dealer who's high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Fat Joe has grown bitter and tired. His career is in the trash, there's no more Terror in the Squad and he's fled The Bronx for Miami.
Acknowledging he can't win his beef with 50 Cent, Joe has decided to d**k ride Toronto rapper Drake. The new hot rapper of the moment in the hopes he can claim some kind of sad victory over Fif if Drake has a successful career.
Joey Crack was recently interviewed by Vibe.com. The subject of Drake's current buzz came up and was compared to 50's pre 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin' buzz.
This is what Joe "The Groupie" had to say about that:
“Two very different artists… As far as I’m concerned, [50 Cent] had one hot album, and his first album was a classic and that’s it,” said Joe. “After that everything else was bubble gummed down. So Drake, I think he will outlast 50 Cent.
“If you talk about 50 Cent on top really making hot music it didn’t even last two, three, four years,” Joe added. “Looking at the quality of the music that Drake is making and the different lanes—he wrote that song for Alicia Keys, ‘Unthinkable’—I think we ain’t seen nobody like him yet. I’m still not saying he’s the best in the game ’cause I gotta hear Kanye new album before I make those remarks, but he’s definitely very, very, very impressive.”
Notice Joe didn't dare mention his rap career compared to Fif's.
Bottom line 50's sold more than 40 million albums, is still a worldwide phenomenon as witnessed by the current Before I Self Destruct Tour and still has more albums to come. While Drake has yet to release an album.
In the 16 years since Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 5, 1994, numerous attempts have been made to recount his too-short life in film. "Milk" director Gus Van Sant came the closest, modeling the lead character (played by Michael Pitt) in 2005's "Last Days" after Cobain. A handful of documentaries have also recounted his tragic tale.
The next hope for Nirvana fans who would like to see the fallen musician immortalized on the big screen is an untitled biopic that is said to be based largely on "Heavier Than Heaven," a 2001 biography by Charles R. Cross. "Quantum of Solace" director Marc Forster was at one point rumored to be helming the biopic, though the gig has since passed to "The Messenger" director Oren Moverman.
When MTV News spoke with Moverman in February, he set the record straight.
"There is a script from David Benioff ["25th Hour"/ "Brothers" screenwriter] that is about Kurt Cobain, and I'm in negotiations to polish it and then direct it, but it's not a done deal deal yet," he said. "It's in the works and hopefully it will work out."
Moverman added that Benioff's script does not lean as much on "Heavier Than Heaven" as some initially thought. "That book has a lot of information, so, yeah, it's definitely a great resource. But a lot of [the script] is also based on David Benioff's research and creative flourishes," he explained. "To tell you the truth, it's so early in the process, it would be not right for me to try to guess what the film will be before I start to actually attack it, before I'm officially on it."
Ice Cube is gearing up to release his new album 'I Am The West' on July 13 and he's coming straight at your favorite rapper's heads!
He unleashed two new tracks at the Paid Dues Festival in San Bernardino, California Friday (April 3), Don Mega performed his brand new single "I Rep That West". In it he disses Lil Wayne.
Then he got serious on another new track titled "Drink The Kool Aid". Cube goes at Kanye West, Lil Wayne (again) and The New West. "I heard there's a New West Coast, I aint heard it!"
He's sending mad subliminal shots on the track as well. I could speculate , but it's best you hear it and make your own judgement.
Nicki Minaj is the rare rapper without a chip on her shoulder. She's not even bitter about her time as an unsigned artist, when she struggled to get her gum-snapping flow noticed. "I was shopped around a lot early on," says the bubbly 25-year-old, born Onika Maraj. "The major labels weren't interested, and they shouldn't have been. They shouldn't have been excited to sign somebody that no one knew about." So she made a name for herself.
In 2007, the Queens native shot a video for the punchlinedriven track "Click Clack," which landed on the underground rap DVD The Come Up Vol. 11: The Carter Edition. The clip caught the attention of Lil Wayne, who was featured on the same compilation, and the superstar promptly signed Minaj to his Young Money imprint. By way of thanks, the self-styled "Wonder Woman" swiftly upstaged both her new boss and Drake on the frothy Young Money posse cut "BedRock," which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Minaj's sassy performance on that track proved there's more to her than comic-book curves. She can spit like a seasoned New York battle rapper (check out the tense "Itty Bitty Piggy," off her latest mixtape, Beam Me Up Scotty), but isn't afraid to be goofy, often switching accents -- everything from Valley Girl to posh Brit—and rhyme schemes in the same verse. "It bothers me when people take themselves too seriously. It's like, loosen the fuck up," she says. "At the end of the day, this is entertainment. We should be entertained."
Minaj hopes to keep listeners amused with her still-untitled debut album, which is set to feature production help from David Banner, Polow Da Don, and Swizz Beatz. The album is without a release date (expect it later this year), but Minaj insists that whenever it arrives will be right on time. "I've gone through the 12-Step Hip-Hop Program: the mixtapes, the DVDs, the low-budget videos, the small shows," she says. "I thank God that I wasn't signed years ago and that I didn't have a hit record before I did the grind. I'm ready now." So are we.
Ice Cube is gearing up to release his new album 'I Am The West' on July 13 and he's coming straight at your favorite rapper's heads!
He unleashed two new tracks at the Paid Dues Festival in San Bernardino, California Friday (April 3), Don Mega performed his brand new single "I Rep That West".
Then he got serious on a track called "Drink The Kool Aid". Cube goes at Kanye West, Lil Wayne and The New West. He's sending mad subliminal shots out on the track as well. I could speculate , but it's best you hear the track and make your own judgement..
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