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Former Indian Health Service pediatrician Stanley Patrick Weber was for abusing four boys as young as about 9. Weber abused patients in Montana and South Dakota across a 16-year period, but despite multiple complaints from his colleagues about the "parade of boys" who visited his home on the reservation at night, he continued to be cycled through jobs within the agency for decades due to a series of oversight failures, according to The Wall Street Journal.

A Birmingham, Alabama physician was after a federal investigation turned up hidden cameras he had set up to record unsuspecting neighbors and house guests, some of whom were as young as age 12 years, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Federal agents were originally investigating the physical medicine doctor for suspected fraud when they which one FBI analyst said depicted "the worst violence" she had ever seen. (AL.com)

In Pennsylvania, a primary care physician was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being convicted on 14 counts of illegal opioid dispensing in October. Over a span of three years, he would meet patients at hotels or on the side of the road to or explicit photos. In his defense, the convicted doctor testified that "opioids are like candy," and "10 to 20 opioid pills will not hurt you." (TribLive)

An Iowa nurse . Prosecutors said she drew quantities of fentanyl and morphine from the pharmacy, administered the prescribed amounts to patients in the intensive care unit, and then kept the leftovers to inject herself later at work. As part of the plea deal, she will forfeit her nursing license, which had been suspended after her indictment. (The Gazette)

A British general practitioner was sentenced to a minimum 15 years in prison for one of whom was age 15 years. The presiding judge said the physician preyed on women's fears of cancer in order to subject them to unnecessary and invasive exams. One woman testified that he brought up Angelina Jolie's prophylactic mastectomy so the patient would agree to a breast exam; another said he cited the example of Jade Goody, a reality television star in Britain who died of metastatic cervical cancer. (BBC News)

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