"For more than one patient to die in a doctor's surgery in a doctor's lifetime would be extremely unusual and I think there are aspects around that degree of monitoring of deaths and particularly the certification of deaths that we need to look at in a considered way, " he said.
Dr. Stancell earned his Bachelor's degree from the City College of New York and his Doctor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, where he was subsequently offered tenure as professor.
The boy's chin and lip were bruised and his lip cut inside, which in the doctor's opinion were caused by his chin forcefully striking a hard surface that, because of the degree of force, caused the bleeding to the brain.