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Manhattan Pain Management Doctor Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison For Oxycodone And Fentanyl Prescriptions

July 31, 2021

On July 8, 2021, Gordon Freedman, a doctor who practiced in New York, New York, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 121 months in prison for participating in a scheme to receive bribes and kickbacks in the form of fees for sham educational programs (“Speaker Programs”) from pharmaceutica[...]

Maryland Pediatrician Sentenced To One Year Incarceration For Sexually Abusing Patient, Faces Many Additional Charges For Other Patients

January 31, 2020

On November 1, 2019, a long-time Maryland pediatrician was convicted of second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense of an 18-year-old patient who had been his patient since she was a baby. The 69-year-old Maryland pediatrician was found not guilty of second-degree rape, reportedly because[...]

Convicted Ohio Orthopedic Surgeon Being Sued For Sexual Misconduct By Former Patient

March 27, 2016

An orthopedic surgeon from Ohio is facing a medical malpractice suit following a conviction related to sexual misconduct and tampering with medical records. The 41-year-old Ohio orthopedic surgeon was convicted on February 24, 2016 of two counts of gross sexual imposition and one count of tamper[...]

Did California Doctor Treating The Uninsured Take Inappropriate Photographs Of Patients?

November 2, 2014

A California medical clinic serving uninsured and indigent patients announced on October 23, 2014 that it had suspended a doctor’s privilege to practice at the clinic after allegations arose that the doctor had taken sexually inappropriate photographs of patients at the clinic. The allegati[...]

Florida Doctor Allowed To Surrender Medical License To Avoid Criminal Prosecution For Alleged Sexual Misconduct With Patients

November 1, 2014

On October 20, 2014, Florida officials announced that a Daytona, Florida doctor had agreed to surrender his Florida medical license pursuant to an agreement that will avoid his criminal prosecution for alleged sexual misconduct with his patients. The doctor had been charged with two counts of misd[...]

Suspended Maryland Physician Surrenders Medical License In Wake Of Sexual Misconduct Charges

September 7, 2014

On August 20, 2014, a Maryland physician who had his Maryland medical license summarily suspended on June 5, 2014 after the Maryland Board of Physicians (“Board”) determined that “the public health, safety or welfare imperatively require emergency action in this case,” volunt[...]

Maryland Physician’s Loss Of License For Drugs-For-Sex Upheld

September 24, 2013

On September 5, 2013, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland (“Court of Special Appeals”), Maryland’s intermediate appellate court, upheld the revocation of a Maryland physician’s medical license by the Maryland Board of Physicians (“Board”) for the physician&[...]

Former Johns Hopkins Gynecologist Kills Himself While Under Investigation For Photographing Patients

February 20, 2013

Baltimore City police reported that a former Johns Hopkins Hospital gynecologist who was being investigated for allegedly taking inappropriate photographs and videotaping his patients without their knowledge or consent was found dead in his home on February 18, 2013, evidently due to a self-inflic[...]

Examples Of New York Physician Misconduct Other Than Medical Malpractice

November 2, 2011

Physicians (medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy) may be disciplined by their respective state disciplinary boards for their actions that may be criminal in nature or otherwise not strictly based on “medical malpractice.” In a recent matter before the New York State Board for Pr[...]

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