citizen.co.za on February 28, 2012 reported that the trial of a doctor accused of defrauding the Compensation Fund was postponed until May 22 by the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday. The court heard that Tebogo Ephraim Kaeletsa had succeeded in raising the money to pay for his legal representation. He is charged with defrauding the fund out of R700,000. In a previous appearance, Kaeletsa's lawyer Samuel Molele asked the court to postpone the matter as the doctor had not paid him due to "cashflow problems". Magistrate Dawie Jacobs extended Kaeletsa's bail of R5000.

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thebarrieexaminer.com on February 28, 2012 reported that details of the disciplinary action taken against a Barrie family doctor have been released by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The college’s discipline committee found that Dr. Tariq Ali Farooq committed an act of professional misconduct. In particular, he was found to have breached a Medicine Act and/or Regulated Health Professions Act 1991, by using a title indicating he was a specialist, which he was not. “The committee was nevertheless dismayed that Dr. Farooq’s misconduct started on his very first day of independent practice, when he misrepresented himself as a dermatologist without having the appropriate qualifications to do so,” the committee stated in its findings. Farooq declined comment to the Barrie Examiner. Farooq is not certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in dermatology, nor has he undertaken a residency program in dermatology in Ontario, or elsewhere. According to the discipline committee, Farooq led many patients to believe he was a dermatologist.

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ibnlive.in.com on February 27, 2012 reported that a quack who allegedly conducted abortion at a charitable hospital in Haryana's Karnal district was arrested today When a team of state health department reached the hospital, the abortion had already been done and the sweeper of the hospital escaped with the foetus. Apart from the quack, Rekha, the husband of the woman who had undergone abortion, Jagat Ram, owner of the Hospital Jaiveer and those who cooperated in the ultrasound tests Balwinder and sweeper Guddi were also held, an official release said here. Action has been taken against all of them under Pre Natal Diagnostic Technique Act and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.

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news.webindia123.com on February 27, 2012 reported that two fake doctors have been arrested for allegedly running a clinic without proper registration at Chhapara, 35 km from here, police said today. On the basis of complaints received against Parth Kumar Sinha and Dinesh Soni, Chief Medical and Health Officer YS Thakur investigated the matter and asked police to take action.

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newschannel5.com on February 29, 2012 reported that a Kentucky doctor accused of attempting to kill her husband in a Nashville hotel made her first appearance in court Tuesday. Forty-two-year-old Kristy Garrett waived her indictment, allowing the case against her to continue on to criminal court. Garrett was charged with attempting to kill her 37-year-old husband David Chappell inside a hotel room at the Hilton Garden Inn on Broadway in January. Chappell told investigators the two got into a fight earlier in the evening, and it continued when they got back to the hotel. That was when he was shot.

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democratherald.com on February 28, 2012 reported that a doctor at Samaritan Lebanon Community Hospital submitted his resignation Sunday after The Oregonian reported on a court case in which he testified he had sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl who had been coerced into prostitution. John F. Lindberg, 63, lives in Portland, but worked as an emergency room physician at the 25-bed Lebanon hospital. Becky Pape, CEO of the hospital, told the Democrat-Herald Monday that Lindberg had been a full-time physician but added it is Samaritan Health Services’ policy to not provide specifics regarding former employees. Pape said emergency room doctors work long shifts and then have considerable time off, which provides them with the option of living some distance from where they work.

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dailyitem.com on February 28, 2012 reported that a former Milton chiropractor has pleaded guilty to four counts of indecent assault following complaints by four female patients, including a pregnant woman. James L. Carl, 36, of 1254 White Hall Road, Turbotville, admitted his guilt to the four misdemeanor charges that carry a maximum penalty of eight years in jail. He is scheduled to be sentenced before Northumberland County Judge Charles H. Saylor in a few months. Carl was charged June 15 with sexually assaulting two females he was treating at his Milton office. Two more women came forward a couple of weeks later to report they were also attacked.

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newsmax.com on February 28, 2012 reported that a Texas doctor and six others were arrested on Tuesday on charges they tried to defraud federal healthcare programs of nearly $375 million in what U.S. officials described as one of the largest schemes allegedly orchestrated by a single doctor. Dr. Jacques Roy, 54, was charged with certifying or directing the certification of more than 11,000 patients for home healthcare services, which led to Medicare being improperly billed for more than $350 million and Medicaid being billed for more than $24 million. The alleged scheme ran between January 2006 and November 2011, though it was not immediately clear how much was paid out by the two federal programs to Roy and the others accused in the indictment unsealed on Tuesday. "Dr. Roy's company is alleged to have certified more Medicare beneficiaries for home health services, and had more beneficiaries under its care, than any other medical practice in the United States," U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole told reporters during a news conference in Dallas.

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nj.com on February 28, 2012 reported that a cosmetic doctor whose niche was laser hair removal and Botox injections allegedly did not have licenses to perform those procedures, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said. Authorities Monday arrested Gilles Des Gachons, 52, of Warren, shortly after a consultation with an undercover investigator at his Watchung office, according to the prosecutor. Soriano said Des Gachons did not have a state medical license, and he did not have a license to practice as a cosmetologist, manicurist or skin care specialist in New Jersey.

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msnbc.msn.com on February 27, 2012 reported that the medical license of a Farmington Hills physician has been suspended after he was convicted of several drug related charges. Physician Edwin C. Blumberg has been suspended by The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Back in November, Blumberg was convicted of multiple felonies including, conspiracy with intent to deliver narcotics and delivery and manufacturing of non-narcotics, among others. Blumberg was sentenced to three days in jail with credit for three days, probation for a period of two years with terms and ordered to pay more than $2,500 in fines and costs. He was also forced to surrender his DEA registration number and medical license.

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lfpress.com on February 28, 2012 reported that a London nurse who worked at a Delaware retirement home is charged with administering a noxious substance to three residents of the home. Staff at Middlesex Terrace long-term care home contacted police to report a nurse involved in suspicious activity. "The matter came to our attention because the retirement home notified us," Middlesex OPP Const. Liz Melvin said. Police wouldn't say what noxious substance was used, or whether the patients were injured, saying only it was administered in December 2011.

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stltoday.com on February 28, 2012 reported that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation has suspended the license of a recently indicted doctor with offices in Florissant, East St. Louis and Granite City. The state complaint largely mirrors accusations in a federal criminal case against Dr. Abid Nisar, 60, of Town and Country that was filed in January. Nisar pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to a misdemeanor charge of introducing misbranded prescription drugs into interstate commerce and admitted buying $352,504 worth of "illegal and unapproved" cancer drugs in 47 separate shipments. The drugs were unapproved for use in the United States and Nisar, responding to a faxed ad, bought them at a significant discount. He failed to tell patients or insurance companies about the source of the drugs.

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rte.ie on February 27, 2012 reported that a senior hospital doctor accused of sending inappropriate texts and email pictures to female colleagues has been found guilty of three counts of professional misconduct and one of poor professional performance after a Medical Council inquiry. Dr Onada Oladije Onada lives in Kilkenny and worked as a senior house officer at University Hospital Galway from August 2010 to January 2011. The inquiry verdict says Dr Onada's communications were ''disgraceful and dishonourable''. It found that he sent a photo of scantily clad women to one female doctor. He also repeatedly failed to respond adequately, or at all, when bleeped and he failed to take blood from patients in a timely manner.

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ultimatecyfair.com on February 24, 2012 reported that North Cypress Medical is being sued over claims inattentive staff caused a patient to fall, which eventually led to her death. Patricia Frost, individually and on behalf of the deceased Mildred Clark, filed a lawsuit on Thursday, Feb. 23 in the Harris County District Court against North Cypress Medical Center, citing negligence. Frost says on March 1, 2010, Mildred Clark, 92, died as a result of blunt trauma to the head after being admitted to North Cypress Medical Center for abdominal pain, dehydration and nausea. According to the brief, Clark, as a patient at North Cypress, fell after hospital staff ignored her requests for help to go to the bathroom.

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al.com on February 24, 2012 reported that a federal judge this morning sentenced a Monroe County doctor to five years probation for selling and consuming anabolic steroids. Dr. Mark Peter Koch, who has offices in Monroeville and Camden in Wilcox County, pleaded guilty last year to being part of a conspiracy to distribute more than 300 grams of steroids, a drug used by some athletes to build muscles quickly. U.S. District Judge William Steele, before imposing probation, said he received a number of letters from Koch’s patients, nurses and fellow doctors, illustrating that Koch provided good medical care in a rural area in need of physicians.

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bbc.co.uk on February 24, 2012 reported that a woman whose mother died from bowel cancer after undergoing the wrong operation at a Kent hospital is calling for tougher disciplining of doctors. Kate Keane's mother, Jillian Phillips, died two years after David Jackson operated on her at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, in 2004. Dr Jackson was suspended from the medical register in 2007 but has never appeared before a disciplinary hearing.

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germantown.patch.com on February 24, 2012 reported that a practical nurse and her daughter, who are from Germantown, pled guilty to a scheme that placed a seriously ill infant in unlicensed care, the State’s Attorney General’s office said Friday. Licensed Practical Nurse Hellen Njeri Ngatia and her daughter, Gladys Muthoni Ngatia, pled guilty to Medicaid Fraud and Conspiracy to Commit Medicaid Fraud. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Michael W. Reed sentenced Hellen Ngatia to three years incarceration, suspending all but 90 days. She was placed on three years supervised probation and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service within 18 months, the Attorney General’s office said in a press release.

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