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— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

Last Updated June 12, 2024
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A man was sentenced to for the 2017 murder of Alaska surgeon Eric Garcia, MD. (Alaska's News Source)

A mother and daughter in Texas were arrested in a sting operation and accused of giving patients without any medical expertise. (NBC News)

The manslaughter trial for the Texas physician accused of running over and killing a pedestrian in front of Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen in April 2023. (ValleyCentral.com)

A former IT worker for a hospital in Iowa was convicted in an that he ran for more than 3 decades. His victim was even wrongly imprisoned for 2 years, accused of identity theft himself. (CBS News)

Texas physician Rodolfo Giraldi, MD, who was wanted on a felony charge of practicing medicine without a license, to law enforcement this week. Several women claim they had botched breast augmentation surgeries at his clinic. His employee was arrested in an undercover sting 6 months ago. (Click 2 Houston)

Three people were sentenced for their roles in "Operation Nightingale," a scheme involving the sale of fake nursing school diplomas, . Officials of nursing schools and training programs were sentenced to a range of 33 to 78 months in federal prison and forfeiture of millions of dollars.

In the trial of Raynaldo Ortiz, MD, who faces 10 felony counts for allegedly tampering with IV bags at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas, an anesthesiologist for the defense said that in every case, there was a plausible alternative explanation that didn't involve the IV bags. (CBS News)

A doctor who has appeared on British TV was found by a medical tribunal to have given to a patient in return for sex at his clinic. (BBC)

A medical malpractice lawsuit in Connecticut claims that a pain management doctor performed a procedure that was supposed to relieve a patient's back pain, but ended up . (CT Insider)

An ENT specialist in Jupiter, Florida, was after Apple discovered he emailed the children's images to himself on different personal devices. (Palm Beach Post)

Iowa nurse practitioner Ashley Brown is accused of prescribing durable medical equipment for Medicare beneficiaries in return for illegal kickbacks. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.