getreading.co.uk on January 27, 2011 reported that a GP has gone to the High Court to fight a ban that stops him practising for 12 months. Tarek Moneim was a partner at Chancellor House Surgery in Shinfield Road and Tilehurst Village Surgery in Westwood Road when his registration was suspended for a year by the General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel. The ban was handed out on April 27, last year, after he was found to have made retrospective alterations to the records of six of his patients between 2002 and 2006.

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7thspace.com on January 27, 2011 reported that doctors Tammy Lee Cashion, age 48, and her spouse Paul J Curcio, age 47, of Clifton, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to the charge of conspiracy in connection with the operation of their Chiropractic Family Health Center in Centreville, Virginia. Neil H MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and James W McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office made the announcement after the pleas were accepted by United States District Judge Claude M Hilton and United States Magistrate Judge John F Anderson.

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Dayton Daily News on January 27, 2011 reported that area physician Dr. Shafik Ahmad is facing three to 10 years in prison when he’s sentenced March 4 for trying to hire a hit man to kill his ex-wife. A Montgomery County Common Pleas jury deliberated a little more than three hours over two days before deciding Thursday that Ahmad was guilty of a single count of conspiracy to commit murder. He remains jailed on a $3 million bond. Defense attorney Jon Paul Rion said the case would be appealed on multiple grounds.

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abc27.com on January 28, 2011 reported that a district judge has upheld 76 counts of felony charges against a former doctor at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Robert Yarwood is charged with 21 counts of rape, 21 counts of sexual assault, 21 counts of aggravated indecent assault, and 13 counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. Derry Township Police said Yarwood, an OB/GYN, got two patients hooked on pain killers and then forced them to perform sex acts before prescribing them more drugs.

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newson6.com on January 27, 2011 reported that the preliminary hearing for a Tulsa doctor accused of sexually assaulting one of his patients has been continued until mid-March. Dr. Richard Irwin is charged with first degree rape, forcible sodomy and indecent exposure.

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lexology.com on January 24, 2011 reported that as proof that no fish is too small for the wide health care fraud nets being cast by government authorities, a Columbus, Ohio internist has pleaded guilty to health care fraud and tax evasion arising out of health care services billed out of his medical practice between 2005 and 2007. According to Department of Justice press release, Dr. Rajiv Yakhmi will could serve up to 10 years in prison and pay a fine of up to $250,000 in connection with one count of health care fraud and filing a false tax return. In addition, he will forfeit and/or abandon approximately $1 million as restitution.

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sify.com on January 27, 2011 reported that a government doctor was suspended Thursday for hiding evidence in the autopsy of a 17-year-old Dalit girl who was allegedly raped and murdered. Four people have been arrested for the rape and murder, police said. The girl’s body was recovered late on Tuesday in Chinhat area and a post-mortem examination was conducted by doctor R.K. Saxena.

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wivb.com on January 27, 2011 reported that federal agents have arrested a Niagara Falls doctor accused of writing illegal pain prescriptions. Uniformed officers with automatic weapons stand guard outside of Dr. Pravin Mehta’s medical office in Niagara Falls. His patients were turned away. One patient said, “I was just pretty shocked. Go see my doctor just to see all these police.” Dr. Mehta is accused of issuing pain killer prescriptions to patients without a proper medical exam.

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kesq.com on January 27, 2011 reported that a Coachella Valley-area physician who stole patients’ identities, used other doctors’ prescription pads to obtain thousands of highly addictive painkillers for herself and filed false workers’ compensation and police reports was sentenced today to a year in jail and five years probation. Dr. Lisa Michelle Barden, who pleaded guilty to 274 felony charges and was convicted of two more counts last week, was taken into custody following her sentencing.

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The Wall Street Journal on January 27, 2011 reported that a Long Island cardiologist arrested in an internet sex sting has been sentenced to five years’ probation and mandatory sex offender treatment. Dr. Jose Poulose was sentenced Thursday in Queens after pleading guilty to trying to arrange a tryst with an undercover detective posing online as a 14-year-old girl. Prosecutors say the 44-year-old Mineola doctor sent explicit instant messages in a chat room in 2007 while using a suggestive screen name.

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stltoday.com on January 27, 2011 reported that a Clayton dermatologist pleaded guilty this morning to sex charges involving a teenage girl, two days into testimony in his criminal trial. Dr. Jerome M. Aronberg, 65, of Clayton, who has an office on North Meramec Avenue, is accused of committing the sexual abuse over the last several years. The victim, 17, was not a patient. Aronberg is scheduled to be sentenced in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Monday.

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Keighley News on January 27, 2011 reported that a suspended doctor blamed the heartbreak of her husband’s cancer and the stress of a dispute with her fellow GPs in Keighley for her devastated state of mind when she impaled her car on a stone wall. Jane Hornsey was found guilty of drink-driving in Kilnsey, on October 18, 2009, by magistrates in Skipton, on Friday. They adjourned sentence until February 9 for reports. The mother-of-four, 53, of Millers House, Arncliffe, failed to convince the Bench she was sober when she hit the wall and had drunk a half-bottle of vodka before the police arrived.

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Focus Taiwan on January 27, 2011 reported that a Taiwanese doctor has been arrested for allegedly killing his Chinese mistress in China more than a year ago. The suspect, who denies killing the woman, has been detained in Taipei. Huang Lin-chieh, an attending physician at the hematology and oncology division of the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, reportedly used drugs to help kill Qin Ya-nan, 28, in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian in late 2009. Qin was found dead in a hotel after checking in with Huang the previous day.

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seacoastonline.com on January 27, 2011 reported that in a lawsuit filed in Rockingham Superior Court, an Exeter Hospital vice president is accused of attempting to take over a local medical practice by assaulting and harassing one of its members. Exeter Hospital; its parent, Exeter Health Resources Inc.; and EHR Vice President Brian Campbell have been named in the lawsuit alleging an assault on a physician who works with the Portsmouth- and Exeter-based Seacoast Gastroenterology group. Dr. Marylyn V. Grondin, a gastroenterologist and Hampton Falls resident who had privileges at the hospital, filed the civil lawsuit earlier this month.

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sfgate.com on January 26, 2011 reported that an Anaheim physician has agreed to surrender his medical license for a second time after state regulators accused him of homicide in the death of an abortion patient. The state Medical Board said Wednesday that Dr. Andrew Rutland violated a court order that limits the kind of procedures he can perform. He agreed to give up his license by Feb. 11 to avoid disciplinary proceedings for the death of a woman who had a toxic reaction to anesthesia and suffered a heart attack in 2009.

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Avvo on January 25, 2011 reported that the estate for a 4-year-old girl who died in 2006 due in to a prescription drug overdose has settled its medical malpractice lawsuit against the girl’s former psychiatrist. The Boston Globe reports that the estate, who represents the siblings of Rebecca Riley, has settled for $2.5 million with Tufts Medical Center, where the doctor still works. The news agency reports Riley’s parents were convicted last year of murder after separate juries found they had recklessly given the girl an overdose of psychiatric drugs prescribed by Dr. Kayoko Kifuji.

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wtae.com on January 26, 2011 reported that police said an Allegheny County doctor has been accused of assaulting some of his patients, and one of the victims agreed to speak with Channel 4 Action News. WTAE is not releasing the woman’s identity because, according to the criminal complaint, she is the victim of a sexual assault. “I was on the exam table, laying down. And he just touched me inappropriate,” she said. Dr. Thomas Tyma works at Allegheny North Arthritis Center in Wexford. Police have accused him of sexually assaulting five women.

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