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UCLA anesthesiologist Christopher Rake, MD, over being fired for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. He was terminated on March 1 after being placed on administrative leave in October 2021. (The Daily Californian)

Dennis Dasher, MD, a physician based in Los Angeles, to the family of a patient who died of pneumonia after doctors failed to diagnose and treat him in the 4 days before his death. (KFI)

A South Carolina man was sentenced to 6 years in prison for submitting a to get out of court. Orin J. Kemp pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. The original charges against him were exploitation of a vulnerable adult and financial transaction card fraud and conspiracy. (WYFF)

The trial of British former nurse Lucy Letby continues this week, with the jury hearing about messages she sent to a colleague about the death of her first alleged victim in June 2015. Seeing the baby's father crying in the morgue was "the hardest thing I've ever had to do," . Letby also allegedly searched Facebook for the baby's mother the night the child died. (BBC News)

Physician assistant Valerie Kloosterman is , Metropolitan Hospital in Michigan, for allegedly firing her for disagreeing with hospital policies around transgender patients. (MLive)

Cigna allegedly siphoned tens of millions of dollars from Medicare by making some beneficiaries , according to a lawsuit filed against the insurer by the federal government. (ABC News)

Two medical study coordinators in Florida have been sentenced to prison after admitting to falsifying data to make it look like when they weren't, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Former Tellus Clinical Research employees Analay Rico and Daylen Diaz will serve 40 and 24 months, respectively, and will pay about $2 million in restitution. Three others involved in the scheme were previously sentenced to prison time and three other defendants have yet to face trial.

And three former employees at another clinical research firm in Florida -- AMB Research Center -- were charged by a grand jury for their roles in an alleged scheme to , the DOJ reported.

Anti-abortion activist Herb Geraghty of Pittsburgh is for blocking access to a Washington, D.C. abortion clinic in October 2020. He could face up to 11 years in prison. (PennLive)

California-based Sutter Health will pay $13 million to settle charges that it tests performed by outside labs, according to the DOJ.

Carter Health and two of its former corporate officers will pay almost $23 million to settle allegations that the to its medical directors in Oklahoma and Texas in order to get referrals of Medicare and Tricare beneficiaries, the DOJ reported.

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