Doc Charged With Recording Nude Patients; Noncompete Ban Blocked; ‘Sex for Scripts’

Prosecutors charged Michigan doctor Oumair Aejaz, MD, with multiple sex crimes after he allegedly videotaped nude women and children; authorities are reviewing thousands of videos. (CBS News Detroit)

A federal judge blocked a Federal Trade Commission rule that would prevent employers, including those in the healthcare sector, from making employees sign noncompete agreements. (CNN)

In a lawsuit, Gilead Sciences alleges that counterfeit versions of its HIV medications were being sold at two New York City pharmacies and that a twice-convicted medical fraudster was behind the scheme. (CNBC)

A Massachusetts pharmacist charged with murder in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents from a 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to tainted compounded steroids is expected to plead no contest to involuntary manslaughter. (AP)

A lawsuit alleges that an Atlanta hospital lost a portion of a patient’s skull after it was temporarily removed to reduce pressure on the brain from an intracerebral hemorrhage. (CNN)

The family of a New Jersey man killed by police while he was having a mental health crisis filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Jersey City, Hudson County, and a local hospital. (New Jersey Monitor)

David Carlos Rodriguez, Jr., MD, of South Carolina, pleaded guilty to distributing oxycodone in a “sex for scripts” scheme, federal prosecutors said.

Also in South Carolina, a patient care assistant at Spartanburg Medical Center was accused of taking advantage of patients to get money and merchandise, in one case allegedly convincing a patient to unlock her phone to transfer money to the employee’s PayPal account. (WSPA)

Florida doctor Ishwari Prasad, MD, is facing disciplinary action related to two colonoscopy procedures, including one in which state officials claim he didn’t hear a patient screaming in pain because he wasn’t wearing his hearing aids. (USA Today)

A Maryland woman was arrested for allegedly stealing a registered nurse’s identity in order to work at nursing homes in Delaware. (NBC 10)

Jennifer Henderson joined MedPage Today as an enterprise and investigative writer in Jan. 2021. She has covered the healthcare industry in NYC, life sciences and the business of law, among other areas.

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