Attorneys representing UPMC and Maxim Healthcare Services on Wednesday asked the state Supreme Court in Pittsburgh to dismiss a group of lawsuits against them alleging that their failure to report an employee who stole fentanyl led to dozens of patients across the country contracting hepatitis C years later. The lawsuits in question, filed in Allegheny [...]
The former top medical officer at the Montgomery County Jail was booked into the jail in August and later agreed to treatment in lieu of conviction on charges of theft and theft of drugs. Dr. Brenda Ellis was booked on Aug. 24 and accepted into a diversion program on Aug. 29, according to a prosecutor’s [...]
SPOKANE, Wash. – A Spokane pharmacist is facing charges after admitting to stealing narcotic painkillers. Court documents reveal Ross Bindler had been stealing hydrocodone since he was an intern in 2011. According to documents, Bindler was the only full time pharmacist at Yoke’s Fresh Market on North Foothills Drive. Bindler was arrested this week for [...]
Federal authorities have charged former metro medical examiner Dr. Joe Burton with illegally distributing opioids and say they believe the nationally known pathologist traded drugs for sexual favors. Burton, now a private consultant, once served as medical examiner for Cobb, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton, Douglas, Paulding and Rockdale counties. Prosecutors routinely relied on him to provide [...]
An abortion doctor whose car was found containing prescription Fentanyl from an Eastpointe clinic as well as aborted baby parts pleaded no contest to larceny charges and had his medical license suspended. Michael Arthur Roth, 75, of Orchard Lake, pleaded no contest to three counts of larceny from a building Monday in Macomb County Circuit [...]
SPOKANE – Cory J. Riehart, 32, Omak, Wash. was sentenced in United States District Court after pleading guilty in July, 2017 to Adulterating a Drug and to Misbranding a Drug with the Intent to Defraud or Mislead, announced Joseph H. Harrington, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. United States District Judge Stanley [...]
A Bakersfield nurse is facing felony charges after investigators said she wrote prescriptions for herself for controlled substances by falsifying physicians' signatures, according to the state Department of Consumer Affairs' Division of Investigation. Jasmine Hill was taken into custody Oct. 6 and is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on 10 charges including identity theft, perjury [...]
by Mike MacLellan An Ontario arbitrator has upheld the termination of a nurse, “SM”, on the basis that she was stealing narcotic drugs from her employer and patients at Cambridge Memorial Hospital. This decision is particularly timely given what health and government officials refer to as an “opioid crisis” in our society, and it gives employers [...]
Kenneth Cherry, an orthopedic surgeon previously affiliated with University Orthopedics Center in State College, lost his medical license for 30 months, according to a list of disciplinary actions released by Pennsylvania's Department of State's for the month of September. According to a press release from Attorney Josh Shapiro’s office on June 23, Cherry wrote 63 [...]
A nurse who worked in the Putnam County Jail is facing drug charges after detectives said she stole antibiotics and other medications from the jail. T. S. Anderson, 44, is charged with 10 counts of possession of a prescription medication without a prescription, five counts of theft, one count of practicing medicine without the proper [...]