When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child's palm. "He must have gotten it between the ...

A girl was diagnosed with a rare tumor on her foot – after doctors mistook it for a wart. Nansi Alys was taken to the doctor at the age of three after her mum Leila Evans noticed a small lump on Nansi ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son ...