The Daily Gleaner on March 29, 2011 reported that a veteran Fredericton physician has had his medical privileges suspended by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick pending a review of his work in a specific case. Dr. Paul Lam, who operates a practice for about 3,000 patients at 523 Dundonald St., had his medical licence pulled Monday when the governing body for physicians decided that documentation about the care he provided for a specific patient should be submitted for review. It’s been a difficult experience for the respected 74-year-old physician, who has been caring for patients in New Brunswick since 1970.

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The Times of India on March 29, 2011 reported that Dr Samir Vadher, resident doctor at the Government Medical College (GMC) has been suspended from the college for six months and debarred from the exams scheduled in April. The decision was announced late on Tuesday evening following a council meeting at the college. Vadher had sprinkled lysol on Dr Sweety Patel at the trauma centre while playing Holi on March 20 on the GMC campus. Patel sustained severe burns on hands and chest due to the concentrated antiseptic and went unconscious for a while. Vadher in her statement informed the inquiry committee formed at the GMC that he had sprinkled the liquid considering it as betadin, a milder form of antiseptic.

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shieldsgazette.com on March 29, 2011 reported that more than 1,600 former patients of disgraced doctor Hung Kor were looking for a new GP today after his practice closed. Staff at Kor’s surgery in Flagg Court Health Centre, South Shields, were only given the news yesterday that the clinic was closing at 6pm. Last month, Kor was found guilty of nine charges of writing fake prescriptions for a strong painkiller using his patients’ names. The 48-year-old was sentenced to 20 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months with supervision, and ordered to pay £8,000 court costs.

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tauntongazette.com on March 29, 2011 reported that Beth Israel Deaconess Healthcare has placed a doctor with a practice in Whitman on administrative leave after police say she drove drunk into at least one car in the parking lot of an Easton restaurant, then kicked and bit the officers who booked her. Laura D. McLaughlin, 55, of 3 Granite Terrace, Foxboro, was arraigned Monday in Taunton District Court on charges of operating while under the influence of alcohol, operating to endanger and two counts of assault and battery on police officers. She was arrested after police were called to the Loco Tapas and Wine Bar, 520 Foundry St., about 9:15 p.m. Saturday.

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news-press.com on March 30, 2011 reported that a Bonita Springs doctor arrested in September and charged with allegedly helping a patient avoid arrest in a doctor shopping investigation has been talking with the state about a plea deal. Stephen J. Kaskie, 60, of Bonita Family Practice, appeared before Lee Circuit Judge Edward Volz Jr. this afternoon. His attorney, Mark Cohn of Naples, told Volz that his co-counsel, Fort Myers attorney Joseph Viacava, has been speaking with assistant state attorney Frank Pauzer about working out a plea agreement. According to investigators, Kaskie explained the crime of doctor shopping to a patient, provided the patient with information that could help in avoiding arrest and gave her $400 and told her to leave the state to avoid arrest.

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roswell.patch.com on March 28, 2011 reported that Lawrence Epplebaum, a Roswell doctor, was indicted by a federal grand jury and arraigned Monday, Mar. 28 for allegedly committing health care and tax fraud. Epplebaum is a licensed physician who owns and operates the “Atlanta Institute of Medicine and Rehabilitation” and the “Pain Clinic of AIMR” in Atlanta. In 2004, Epplebaum allegedly created the “Back Pain Fund,” a purported charitable organization. However, it was never incorporated as a charitable tax-exempt entity and Epplebaum actually controlled it both directly and indirectly. The indictment alleges that Epplebaum was the primary donor to the Back Pain Fund and paid the vast majority of its operating expenses.

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myfoxdfw.com on March 29, 2011 reported that a Dallas physician is accused of trying to run over someone he allegedly saw smoking near his car. Police say 54-year-old Dr. Jeffrey Reed Thompson faces a felony charge of aggravated assault with a vehicle. Friday’s incident began in a medical office parking garage. The 48-year-old smoker, Donald Zuelly of Rowlett, told police that Thompson told him he couldn’t smoke in the garage, yanked the cigarette from his mouth, threw it down and stepped on it.

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whec.com on March 29, 2011 reported that a local doctor has lost his license to practice medicine. Doctor Richard Dobson of Scottsville, who has a practice in Gates, has agreed to surrender his license after the health department accused him of negligence and incompetence. The statement of charges brought by the New York Health Department’s Office of Professional Medical Conduct lists allegations relating to his treatment of 13 different patients. Dobson is a pain management specialist. Many of his patients live with chronic pain. Earlier this month we told you about patients who were concerned that the doctor was no longer allowed to prescribe controlled substances.

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expressbuzz.com on March 29, 2011 reported that a forensic professor of Osmania Medical College who demanded money from a businessman to prepare his mother’s post-mortem report before forwarding the same to police was caught on Monday by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths. The accused Dr D Jayaraj was demanding the money to prepare the post-mortem of a woman who died after undergoing a knee replacement surgery. Pushpalatha, aged around 56 years had undergone a knee surgery at the Apollo Hospitals in first week of March. “A patient was not supposed to be given solid food within 24 hours of a surgery as she would be under the influence of anaesthesia. Hospital authorities allegedly gave solid food which the woman vomitted.

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mirror.co.uk on March 30, 2011 reported that a doctor accused of murdering a teenage girl 29 years ago appeared in court yesterday after being kidnapped to stand trial. Dieter Krombach, 75, allegedly injected his French step-daughter, Kalinka Bamberski, 14, with a tanning substance overdose. He was bundled into a car in Germany two years ago and found tied up next to a court in France. Krombach denies murder, claiming it was an accident.

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ultimatewoodlands.com on March 28, 2011 reported that a doctor from the Woodlands is facing a wrongful death claim. Willie Douglas, on behalf of the estate of Craig Steven Douglas, filed a lawsuit March 24 in Harris County District Court against Dr. Wesley R. Walker and Christus Saint Mary Hospital. According to the petition, Douglas was a patient of Dr. Walker’s at the hospital in March 2009. Douglas was allegedly admitted to the emergency room and treated by Dr. Walker. However, Douglas died within 24 hours.

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cnn.com on March 28, 2011 reported that four Bangladeshi doctors will face legal action on charges of hiding the cause of death of teenager Hena Akhter, who was flogged to death after villagers found her guilty of having an affair with a married man. The High Court on Monday asked the government to sue the doctors, including the civil surgeon of Shariatpur district, where Hena had lived. Justices AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Sheikh Mohammed Zakir Hossain ruled that the doctors prepared a “false post-mortem report to hide the real cause of Hena’s death.” “We are appalled to see the magnitude of illegality,” Chowdhury said. The doctors are district civil surgeon Golam Sarwar and three medical officers of Shariatpur General Hospital, Nirmal Chandra Das, Hosne Ara Begum and Rajesh Majumder.

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thelocal.de on March 28, 2011 reported that a doctor who used lemon juice to disinfect his patients’ operation wounds and removed healthy organs was sentenced to four years in a minimum security facility followed by a four-year ban on practising medicine, a Monchengladbach court said Monday. In one of the more notorious medical scandals in recent years, the court pronounced the 54-year-old owner and head doctor of a private clinic guilty on two counts of negligent homicide and 21 counts of bodily harm. Arnold Pier, who confessed to his crimes after one-and-a-half years at trial, “removed organs that should not have been removed,” head Judge Lothar Beckers said.

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ghananewsagency.org on March 28, 2011 reported that a 28-year-old unemployed was on Friday sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Kumasi Circuit Court for posing as a medical doctor and stealing items of patients at “Block D” of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). Augustine Ayamdo Appiah pleaded guilty to impersonation and stealing. Police Chief Inspector Samuel Kwabena Nkrumah told the Court, presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Amoh-Yartey, that the complainant, Gifty Boatemaah, is a hairdresser who resides at Kwamo in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ashanti. He explained that on March 16, Gifty went to visit her senior sister; Georgina Agyemang, now deceased, who was on admission at KATH.

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ghananewsagency.org on March 28, 2011 reported that Paulina Agborku, 47 and, Yawtse Kwashie, 30, mother and husband respectively of Abigail Agborku, 28, who died in a botched illegal abortion, have been arrested by the Aflao Police. “Dr” Efo Atsu, a self-styled medical doctor, said to have carried out the illegal abortion, is however on the run. Paulina Agborku and Yawtse Kwsahie have been granted bail in the sum of 600 Ghana cedis each with three sureties by the Aflao Circuit Court. Their pleas were not taken and would come back to court on April 19 this year.

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delcotimes.com on March 28, 2011 reported that the preliminary hearing for the Upper Gwynedd veterinarian accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend earlier this month, originally scheduled for Tuesday morning in Allentown, has been continued. No new date has been scheduled, according to Lehigh County Central Court. Rapaport’s attorney, Greg Pagano, requested the delay, according to the court. Rapoport, a married veterinarian who worked at the Harleysville Veterinary Hospital, is accused of fatally shooting Jennifer L. Snyder – a 27-year-old Lower Macungie Township woman who was 10 to 12 weeks pregnant with his child, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office.

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whas11.com on March 28, 2011 reported that there are new allegations against Doctor Ashok Alur that are making it illegal for him to write prescriptions. He’s the Crestwood doctor who was arrested last fall after he was accused of performing a sex act on a patient. The Kentucky Board of Medical Examiners amended its complaint against doctor Alur after an expert determined he improperly prescribed medicine to patients. The board said Alur’s actions endangered public safety and the board restricted his prescribing privileges.

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