Pediatrician to Pay $22M in Sex Abuse Case; Doc Gets 18 Years for Supporting ISIS

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Former New York pediatrician Stuart Copperman, MD, has been ordered to to a 42-year-old woman who claimed he sexually abused her from when she was a toddler until she turned 18. (New York Times)

A judge has Wendy Cooper, who had been fired by her hospital in 2021 for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine. (The Buffalo News)

A federal appeals court has ruled that Waylon Bailey's March 2020 Facebook post joking that the local Louisiana sheriff's office had issued an order to shoot people infected with COVID-19 was under the First Amendment, and that he shouldn't have been arrested. (Washington Post)

Muhammad Masood, MBBS, a licensed medical doctor in Pakistan who worked as a research coordinator at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to foreign terrorist group ISIS, .

A British nurse has been at Birmingham Children's Hospital in England. (People)

A has accused Virginia pediatrician Martin Forman, MD, of touching her inappropriately. (NBC4)

Louisiana medical resident Andrew Matthews, MD, accused of filming staff in a hospital bathroom, was earlier this month but now and booked with 34 additional counts of video voyeurism. (FOX8)

California doctor Tien Tan Vo, MD, pleaded guilty to charges related to importing injectable botulinum toxin and lip fillers not approved for use in the U.S., .

The family of a man allegedly killed by former Pennsylvania nurse Heather Pressdee with a lethal dose of insulin is for failing to prevent his death. (McKnights)

Michigan physician Rajendra Bothra, MD, and two of his clinics will pay $6.5 million to resolve claims that they performed and billed for unnecessary procedures, including sedation services, back braces, and urine drug tests, according to the .

Tennessee physician Samson Orusa, MD, was sentenced to 7 years in prison after being convicted of more than a dozen felony healthcare fraud charges, including billing for unnecessary steroid injections. He was also ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution, fined $195,000, and had to forfeit previously seized assets totaling about $900,000, according to the .

Florida-based Lincare Holdings will pay $29 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans for oxygen equipment, according to the .

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