In April 2011 the University of Pennsylvania Health System claimed as early as 1999 that they had provided to authorities reports about botched procedures by Gosnell.

He had already been executed, in 1990, in a grisly botched procedure caused by a malfunctioning electric chair.

In the last few years South Florida has become the nation's capital of black-market beauty treatments, in the view of many licensed doctors in the region who regularly see patients hoping to repair botched procedures.

Without enough information on birth control or access to abortions, Russian women could return to back-street charlatans for the kind of botched, unsanitary procedures that once killed many.

A second advertisement superimposes the picture of a young boy who was injured during a botched medical procedure over the preamble to the Constitution.

The most recent, "Without Memory," tracks the astonishing case of a man who was the victim of a botched medical procedure.

When Darcy died in May 1917 from complications resulting from a botched dental procedure, many Australians blamed Baker for his death.

Malpractice victims speak of botched procedures and lives destroyed while doctors recite stories of patients, and of lawyers, who are awarded millions of dollars they do not necessarily deserve.

The lyrics of the second half (sung by Cale alternating with Lou Reed) are full of oblique, deadpan black humor and describe a botched surgical procedure.

A mistake in a botched procedure, that nearly costs a patient his life, makes Yossi's supervisor gently upbraid him for not taking a vacation.