Urologist Convicted of Sex Abuse; Doc Accused of Rape; Man Sentenced for HIV Spread

New York urologist Darius Paduch, MD, PhD, was convicted of sexually abusing multiple patients, including four children. (AP)

Emergency physician Jeremy Wayne Saul, MD, was arrested for allegedly raping a victim in an Arkansas hospital. (KSLA)

An HIV-positive Idaho man was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison for purposely trying to spread the disease through sexual contact. (NBC News)

An in-home nurse has been accused in a lawsuit of beating and breaking the leg of a blind, non-verbal child. (USA Today)

Minnesota doctor Connor Bowman, MD, who has been accused of poisoning his wife, appeared to be calling himself a widower before she died. (NBC News)

North Carolina cardiologist Damian Alexander Brezinski, MD, was arrested and charged with indecent liberties with a child, and sexual offense in the first degree. (Star News Online)

Washington spine surgeon Kevin Schoenfelder, MD, will pay about $197,000 to resolve claims that he performed unnecessary spinal surgeries, and CHI Franciscan Health and St. Joseph Medical Center will pay about $745,000, according to federal prosecutors.

An employee of a Cincinnati hospital is accused of secretly filming more than a dozen women inside an employee bathroom. (WLWT)

Closing arguments are scheduled for Friday morning in the hearing of Dharmesh Patel, MD, the California radiologist who drove his Tesla off a cliff with his family inside. A judge will decide whether to move the case out of criminal court and into a mental health treatment program. (KRON)

Physician Thomas Romano, MD, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for illegally doling out opioids at an Ohio clinic. (WTRF)

The husband of a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her former employer. (AP)

Florida’s Baptist Health System will pay $1.5 million to resolve claims that it illegally gave discounts to Medicare beneficiaries to induce them to use its services, according to the Department of Justice.

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