Hospital CEO Died After Surgery, Lawsuit Follows; Doc Sues Over Noncompete

A hospital CEO died after heart surgery, and now her family is suing the University of Chicago Health System for negligence. Surgeons recommended a heart valve repair using a “minimally invasive robotic procedure,” but the family of Ruth Colby alleges she should have had valve replacement instead. Something allegedly went wrong during the procedure and Colby died 3 weeks later. (WGN9)

An 80-year-old woman has been accused of trying to strangle a nurse at a care facility. (NBC 5)

Pennsylvania urologist Eric Rottenberg, MD, has sued Commonwealth Physicians Network to try to get out of a noncompete clause so that he can work for Lehigh Valley Health Network instead. The clause prevents him from working for a competitor within 20 miles for 2 years. (Standard-Speaker)

An additional 12 families have filed a class action lawsuit against Pennsylvania-based Lehigh Valley Health Network and child abuse pediatrician Debra Esernio-Jenssen, MD, alleging that they were falsely accused of medical child abuse. Three other suits against the hospital and doctor were filed last month. (WFMZ)

Mayo Clinic Arizona doctor Arthur De Luigi, DO, was arrested after allegedly assaulting a woman during a golf tournament by rushing toward her and pushing her to the ground. (Arizona’s Family 3TV/CBS 5)

Nurses in Kentucky have sued over allegedly being fired for calling the police on a co-worker who they said showed up to work inebriated, ultimately leading to that colleague’s arrest for stealing patients’ morphine. (LEX 18)

The ACLU of Colorado said it’s suing Children’s Hospital Colorado on behalf of an 18-year-old transgender patient who was denied gender-affirming surgery when the hospital stopped doing the procedure last July. (KDVR)

A Federal Trade Commission order bans a California company from claiming its dietary supplements can prevent or treat COVID-19.

The lawsuits are piling up for medical supply company CooperSurgical, as patients have now filed eight suits alleging the company’s in vitro fertilization culture media allegedly destroyed more than 100 embryos. The company has recalled three lots of the product, which was reportedly missing magnesium and prevented the embryos from developing. (New York Times)

An Ohio woman has been arrested for allegedly posing as both a nurse and a physical therapist without any medical training. (ABC 13)

California-based Sentynl Therapeutics will pay $750,000 to resolve claims that it indirectly paid kickbacks to a doctor who was a high prescriber of its opioid products by hiring his girlfriend as a sales rep, federal prosecutors announced.

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