PA Killed in Crossfire; Doc Gets 4 Years for Insider Trading; Wrongful Death Suit

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May 31, 2024
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Three suspects have been arrested in the shooting death of South Carolina physician assistant Blaine Varner, PA-C, who was caught in the crossfire between two cars. (WIS 10)

New York nephrologist Paul Feldman, MD, was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison for participating in a $4 million insider trading scheme involving Alexion Pharmaceuticals. (Mid Hudson News)

A wrongful death suit alleges a Connecticut man was given too much of the blood thinner enoxaparin (Lovenox) before a prostatectomy, and ultimately bled to death. (Hartford Courant)

Over 30 years, pharmaceutical companies have paid more than $62 billion in legal penalties — but that’s a drop in the bucket of the nearly $2 trillion that the 35 largest drug companies raked in over just 20 years, according to an analysis by Public Citizen.

Connecticut physician Anatoly Braylovsky, MD, was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for distributing an excessive amount of opioids. He allegedly had also expressed a desire to hire a hitman to target a patient he thought was a confidential informant. (Hartford Courant)

Texas twin brothers Desi Barroga, MD, and Deno Barroga, MD, pleaded guilty to submitting claims for steroid shots that they never administered, federal prosecutors said.

Michigan physician Daniel Castro, MD, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for performing unnecessary sinus surgeries. (WWMT)

Lucy Letby, the British nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others, lost her appeal. (NBC News)

Two former executives of Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee claim in a recently unsealed lawsuit that the facility paid doctors well above their fair market value in exchange for patient referrals. (ABC 9)

Scott Piper, MD, the Iowa physician who was sentenced to 2 years probation for assault, had his medical license revoked. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

An appeals court judge has revived a lawsuit accusing the Mayo Clinic of illegally firing five employees who refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. (Reuters)

Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com. Follow

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