A Denver family is blaming an emergency room doctor for the 2016 death of their 10-year-old son, who was barely able to breathe when he was sent home from the hospital, according to news reports. The boy's mother, Deborah Saeed Gay says another doctor at Swedish Medical Center near Denver told the family's attorney that [...]
A nurse at a local hospital has been arrested, accused of stealing medication on-duty. On Tuesday, the Chatham-Savannah Counter Narcotics Team (CNT) arrested 34-year-old K. Alvarado-Torres, a registered nurse at Memorial Health University Medical Center. She has been charged with possession of a controlled substance (Percocet) with intent to distribute as well as theft by [...]
Last week, the North Carolina Medical Board denied a Lexington doctor's application to have his medical license reinstated. Dr. James Randall Long received the denial on April 16. In response, Long's defense attorney Alan Schneider requested a hearing on the denial, stating that Long has the proper qualifications for his license to be reinstated. The [...]
A former Columbia doctor has been indicted on federal charges in a national crackdown, which included 60 medical professionals from seven states in what in what is considered to be the single-largest prescription opioid law enforcement operation in U.S. history. Dr. Darrel Rinehart, who was previously affiliated with Maury Regional Medical Group until 2016, has [...]
Three Memphis-area doctors and two nurses have been indicted as part of one of the country’s largest federal drug busts for illegal distribution of prescription opioids. A total of 53 doctors and other medical professionals nationwide were charged earlier this week, including the five Memphis doctors and nurses, for their alleged participation in distributing illegal opioids [...]
They were medical professionals but they traded prescription pain pills for sex, prosecutors say. Others let untrained office workers examine patients, leaving a blank prescription pad at the clinic, their indictments reveal. One dentist extracted the healthy teeth of patients as an excuse to give them painkillers, the feds say. And two of the prescribers charged in this [...]
A Livonia family medicine doctor has been sentenced to over eleven years in prison for his role in a prescription drug-diversion scheme. Doctor Zongli Chang pleaded guilty to taking part in the scheme from 2012-2017. Chang would write prescriptions for fake patients brought to him by “patient recruiters.” The prescriptions included controlled substances ranging from [...]
The former office manager of a medical practice has been charged with stealing drugs. Buffalo resident K. Brucz, 33, was charged with obtaining controlled substances by fraud. Between 2015 and March of last year, Brucz was employed at the practice. While working there, prosecutors say she gained control of the state-issued controlled substance electronic prescribing [...]
A Chester County nurse has been arrested following a nationwide bust of health care professionals who illegally prescribed opioids to tens of thousands of victims. T. Brown, 34, of Coatesville faces charges of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Brown filled numerous fraudulent prescriptions in her name and in the names of others a local pharmacy, [...]
A Boise nurse who admitted to swiping vials of the powerful pain medication fentanyl from the hospital where she worked was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation. In addition, Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge ordered Jennifer L. Fanopoulos to wear a charm bracelet with photos of her children - a constant reminder [...]