Murdered Doc Suffered Prior Beating; Faux Plastic Surgeon; Doc Drugged Nanny

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A weekly roundup of healthcare’s encounters with the courts

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Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, MedPage Right now
August 29, 2024

Hamid Mirshojae, DO, the physician who was shot exterior of the pressing care facility the place he labored in Los Angeles, had been beaten by people with baseball bats months earlier than his loss of life. (ABC 7)

A person in Los Angeles was charged with assault and battery after impersonating a doctor and performing beauty surgical procedure with out a license, leading to “nice bodily harm” to a minimum of one shopper, in response to prosecutors. (Los Angeles Instances through AOL)

New York anesthesiologist Paul Giacopelli, MD, admitted to drugging his family’s nanny by putting a sevoflurane-soaked rag over her face, after which sexually abusing her. (Folks)

Arkansas doctor Sudesh Banaji, MD, was arrested and charged with a number of counts of sexual assault and one rely of rape. (KARK)

Virginia pediatrician Dalton Renick, DO, had his license suspended after a medical board investigation discovered that he made a number of lewd feedback to sufferers. (WSET)

Oncologist Thomas Weiner, MD, who was fired from St. Peter’s Health in Montana in 2020, is accused in a federal civil lawsuit of allegedly seeing as much as 70 sufferers a day, double-billing federal healthcare applications, and overprescribing ache medicines to spice up his revenue. Felony fees weren’t filed, however prosecutors concurrently introduced a $10.8 million settlement with the hospital the place he labored. (AP)

Southern California physician John Thropay, MD, was sentenced to just over 3 years in prison for his function in a $2.8 million hospice fraud scheme. (Mercury Information)

A nurse has sued St. Luke’s Hospital in Missouri, claiming the power did not give contract nurses the minimal variety of shifts that it had agreed to. (St. Louis Submit-Dispatch)

Arkansas doctor Lonnie Parker, MD, was sentenced to 87 months in prison, plus 3 years of supervised launch thereafter, for prescribing managed substances with out reliable medical want. (KSLA)

Oregon nurse Phyllis Dodds, RN, who was accused of failing to supply care to 3 assisted residing residents — together with one man who died — has pleaded guilty to felony mistreatment. (KDRV)