indianexpress.com on January 28, 2012 reported that Kolkata Police on Friday arrested two eminent doctors, who were on the board of directors at AMRI, Dhakuria, where fire had claimed 93 lives on December 9. The two doctors — Mani Chetri and Pranab Dasgupta — the directors of the AMRI were produced at the CJM Court, Alipore court on Friday, where the court remanded them in the police custody till February 2 though Kolkata Police urged the court for two weeks’ remand. Delivering the order C H Karim, judge of the CJM court asked to produce them in the court on February 2. The Kolkata Police arrested the duo this morning from their residence for their alleged involvement with fire at AMRI on December 9. Total nine directors out of the fifteen and four employees were arrested in connection with fire till today.

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chicagotribune.com on January 27, 2012 reported that a Detroit-area doctor accused of misdiagnosing epilepsy in hundreds of children has agreed to pay a $10,000 penalty and have his future work reviewed by another doctor. Dr. Yasser Awaad signed the agreement this week with state regulators in a deal that allows him to keep his medical license. He'll be on probation for at least one year, the Detroit Free Press reported (http://on.freep.com/A6KO9Q ) Friday. A lawsuit is pending against Awaad, a resident of West Bloomfield Township, and Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn. He is accused of implanting devices into the brains of several youngsters to control epileptic seizures they never had.

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themountainpress.com on January 28, 2012 reported that Attorney Bryan Delius, who helped Dr. Rodney Carter win an acquittal on rape and sexual battery charges and assisted the physician in regaining his medical license, is now suing the doctor for $52,000 in allegedly unpaid legal expenses. Delius represented Carter in criminal proceedings that started after several patients accused him of improperly touching them during medical exams. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners suspended Carter’s license immediately after Sevierville police charged him with the crimes, and Delius also represented Carter in his efforts to regain his license.

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thisiscroydontoday.co.uk on January 25, 2012 reported that a disgraced Croydon doctor took £100,000 from an out-of-hours GP service, a report published today has found. Dr Ravi Sondhi abused his position as chairman and finance director of Croydoc, failing to answer telephone calls when on duty and ran the service, which covered south west London, from his home in Norfolk. A serious incident report, undertaken by NHS commissioners, has found the antenatal specialist took "substantial sums of money" from his own practice staff, who believed he was investing it on their behalf. It is feared Dr Sondhi, who was sacked in 2010 and is currently suspended by the General Medical Council, has since fled the country.

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indianexpress.com on January 30, 2012 reported that Rajkot city police have arrested a doctor from Bihar on charges of appearing for Saurashtra University’s post-graduate medical entrance examination as a dummy candidate. Dr Mukeshkumar Sinha was arrested on Saturday after he was found to be writing the exam as a dummy candidate, police said. He was appearing for the test on behalf of a student from C U Shah Medical College (Surendranagar) in Rajkot. Preliminary investigation by the Gandhigram police in Rajkot disclosed that an agent in Bihar had arranged a dummy candidate — Sinha, an MBBS from Dhanedi village in Bihar — for a medical student Chirag Vadher, a resident of Nadiyad in Gujarat. The dummy candidate was hired for Rs 50,000, police said.

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wmur.com on January 27, 2012 reported that a Franklin pediatrician was suspended from his practice after being accused of professional misconduct by the state Board of Medicine. Investigators accused Dr. Mark Weinreb of prescribing massive amounts of oxycodone to child patients while carrying on Facebook friendships with their mothers. The board said Weinreb was also Facebook friends with some of his young patients. In one instance, according to a report from the Board, after Weinreb got a Facebook message from a 9-year-old patient that made him angry, he canceled refills of her medication.

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orlandosentinel.com on January 27, 2012 reported that a Central Florida physician was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday for supplying drug dealers with prescriptions for painkillers and other powerful narcotics. Jose Carlos Menendez, who lived in Casselberry and worked at the Physicians Care Partners in Osceola County, pleaded for mercy and leniency at his emotional sentencing hearing. But ultimately, Osceola Circuit Court Judge Jon B. Morgan said he couldn't hand-down a lesser prison sentence "in good conscience." After hearing tearful and remorseful testimony from the physician, his wife and father, Morgan said Menendez was motivated by greed and used his medical license as if it were a "money-making machine."

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kuam.com on January 28, 2012 reported that a California couple are suing the Guam Memorial Hospital, alleging medical malpractice and negligence during treatment at the Emergency Room back in 2010. Rafael and Maria Atilano are suing GMH and the Government of Guam for more than a half-million dollars. According to court documents in March 2010, Rafael Atilano went to ER for evaluation and treatment complaining of an inability to urinate and numbness to the right side of his buttocks down to his thigh. The lawsuit claims that no imaging studies were taken of Atilano while at the hospital and no referral was made for specialty care, despite his symptoms. The complaint states that the treatment of Atilano by defendant agents and employees while at GMH for the emergency treatment of his condition fell below the applicable standard of care in that defendant failed to diagnose his condition of Cauda Equina Syndrome, which needed "emergency surgical treatment".

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ibnlive.in.com on January 25, 2012 reported that a Bangladeshi doctor, suspected to be a policymaker of the banned militant outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir, was today remanded to seven days of custody in connection with a botched coup attempt by some serving and retired army officers last week. Golam Haider Rasul, a doctor with a private health facility in Dhaka, was arrested by elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) yesterday from his residence here. Last week, RAB had arrested five members of the outfit from the city, after the army said it had foiled a coup allegedly plotted by London-expatriate Maj Syed Mohammad Ziaul Huq, said to have links with the banned Islamist outfit.

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independent.ie on January 28, 2012 reported that a doctor has been found guilty of poor professional performance but cleared of the more serious charge of professional misconduct after a crucial biopsy for a cancer patient was delayed. Dr Etop Sampson Akpan originally faced 41 allegations arising from the case of Sharon McEneaney. Ms McEneaney endured significant delays in her treatment for abdominal cancer at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth. The 29-year-old, a creche manager from Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, died in April 2009.

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recordnet.com on January 28, 2012 reported that a doctor who had been accused of – and was acquitted of – stealing a dead patient's Rolex at St. Joseph's Medical Center had his surgeon's certificate suspended by the state of California for lying on two employment applications. One of those applications was for St. Joseph's Medical Center; the other was for Memorial Hospital in Gardena, near Los Angeles. The Medical Board of California found that Dr. Cleveland Enmon, 34, did not disclose to employers that he had a past alcohol-related reckless driving conviction. He was convicted of that in October 2006 in Los Angeles County.

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pittsburghlive.com on January 28, 2012 reported that the Attorney General's Office has charged a Washington County dentist with writing more than 300 prescriptions for painkillers to seven patients between January 2009 and October 2010. State narcotics and Medicaid fraud agents say that Dr. Charles Kokoska, 48, of Millsboro prescribed more than 6,600 painkillers to the patients, including Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Propoxyphene, as well as a generic form of drugs commonly used to treat anxiety.

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click2houston.com on January 25, 2012 reported that two men are suing a Houston hospital after recording video of ants and gnats that had crawled into their father's tracheotomy breathing tube, Local 2 Investigates reported on Wednesday. The brothers provided their video recording to Local 2 Investigates after filing a malpractice lawsuit against Select Specialty Hospital-Houston West at 9430 Katy Freeway near Gessner. "How my daddy was left in his last days, it wasn't good. It wasn't good," said Keith Simmons, a machinist from Houston. His father, Willie Lee Simmons, died of lung disease after collapsing in his home last year. Another hospital treated him and then transferred the 61-year-old to Select Specialty Hospital for rehabilitation.

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tulsaworld.com on January 26, 2012 reported that a Nebraska doctor was sentenced Wednesday in Tulsa to probation in connection with a cross-country steroids conspiracy. Dr. Raymond Heller of Omaha will spend the first eight months of his five-year probation under house arrest and will be expected to perform 100 hours of community service, U.S. Chief District Judge Claire Eagan ruled. She said Heller would face as much as 10 years in prison if his probation is revoked. Heller also will be partially responsible for a $685,741 judgment along with Edward Franklin Ward, 52, of Harvest, Ala. The penalty represents the proceeds the court found that were generated by the conspiracy.

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mainichi.jp on January 26, 2012 reported that a 56-year-old Tokyo doctor was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for buying a kidney which he received in a transplant operation. The Tokyo District Court also gave a 30-month jail term to Noriko Horiuchi, the 48-year-old wife of the doctor Toshinobu Horiuchi, for conspiring with her husband to arrange the buying of the kidney, in violation of the organ transplant law. The doctor, who suffered from kidney failure, paid 8 million yen to a 48-year-old female intermediary in exchange for receiving the organ from a 21-year-old unemployed man in July 2010, according to the ruling.

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leaderpost.com on January 26, 2012 reported that Yorkton gynecologist Dr. Mohammed N. Haque will face a disciplinary committee following allegations of misconduct. Haque has been charged by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan over allegations ranging from performing surgery without consent to making sexualized or sexually demeaning comments. In one case, Haque is alleged to have performed an operation on a woman without first doing an adequate assessment. The complainant says the operation, which was not the one she was expecting, resulted in a reduction in the size of her vagina and painful intercourse.

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timesofindia.com on January 27, 2012 reported that a Police on Thursday arrested a RMP doctor and a scribe at Bowenpally for their alleged involvement in trade in deer skin. Police said that Ch Surender, a scribe in Nizamabad district, procured deer skin from Shamsher, a poacher. Surender came to Hyderabad on Thursday to sell the skin since there has been a heavy demand for deer skin of late. Upon interrogating Surender, police learnt that it was RMP doctor Laxman who had introduced Surender to Shamsher. "It was Laxman who had told Surender about Shamsher. Upon Surender's request, Laxman asked Shamsher to procure deer skin for him. Shamsher went to a forest in Hanumajipet in Nizamabad district's Banswada about 20 days ago, hunted down a deer and, after skinning it, handed over the hide to Laxman," deputy commissioner of police (task force) Ch Ramachander said.

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