You'd think that anyone who puts the time, effort, and money into becoming a doctor would genuinely want to help people. Years of medical school, huge tuition, and perhaps a lot of intelligence would be involved. And yet, despite this, you keep hearing stories of doctors doing things so stupid or terrible that they end up losing their licenses because of it. That's how it is then.
10. Finger amputation on the porch
At the end of the day, most of us want to live our lives with all the pieces we had when we started. But alas, fate is unkind, and every now and then, you have to say goodbye to random pieces. Maybe you have an accident, or you need to have something amputated to prevent further damage. For example, if you get a bad infection that isn’t treated properly, gangrene sets in. This could lead to amputation, and that’s exactly what happened to one Missouri man who chose the wrong doctor.
The man's leg started to hurt gangrene, so former doctor John Ure decided to amputate it. This is where the details become important. Ure's office was also a machine shed. It had no running water or even an examination table. And when Ure performed the amputation, it was on the porch.
Yur said everything was sterile and did exactly what any doctor would do. Medical records suggest that may not be true, since he wasn't even given antibiotics. But he prescribed painkillers two other patients inappropriately, which resulted in the loss of his license.
9. Prescribing marijuana to a 4-year-old child with a misdiagnosis
Creative kids act childishly, it's right there in the name. And sure, some adults aren't exactly childish either, based on the endless stream of viral videos we've all seen of people behaving badly, but at least if it's a real kid, it's easier to understand and deal with. Kids need to learn right from wrong and be shown how to deal with their feelings. And sometimes, if a parent is struggling with this, it may take a visit to the doctor to help. You just hope the doctor knows what he's talking about.
William S. Eidelman, a Los Angeles "doctor of natural medicine," consulted the parents of a four-year-old child who had temper tantrums. That in itself was hardly newsworthy, but Eidelman's prescription was. He gave the child cookie. These are marijuana cookies.
The parents actually followed the doctor's recommendations, but things went wrong when the child asked the school nurse for more marijuana cookies in the middle of the day. The state medical board found that the doctor had misdiagnosed the boy with ADHD and bipolar disorder. It wasn't the marijuana that actually got his license revoked, but the hasty diagnoses, which they called " "gross negligence." "
8. Filming dance videos during a failed surgery
Windell Davis-Boutte enjoyed viral fame as the dancing doctor, with YouTube videos showing her performing surgical procedures while dancing to popular music. She also had to pay nearly $200,000 patients who had never had surgery before after she became embroiled in a scandal that resulted in her license being revoked for more than two years.
While the dance videos were controversial, especially because they sometimes involved seemingly unconscious patients, it was the multiple malpractice allegations that led to her license being revoked. Patients claimed they had numerous complications from botched procedures, with one even claiming brain damage . The fact that Boutte was a dermatologist makes this even more remarkable. She told patients she was a board-certified plastic surgeon and performed plastic surgery procedures when she was not qualified.
7. Drugs for pregnant women to induce labor and make more money
There's a song by the band Loverboy called "Working for the Weekend." It's about working all week to get to the weekend. Pretty self-explanatory. It's the complete opposite of the life that obstetrician Paul Shuen led. Shuen had developed a remarkable racket for himself that allowed him to reap great financial rewards, and all he had to do was get women to give birth on the weekend, whether it was their time or not.
In Canada, where Shuen worked, doctors' salaries are paid by the government. The pay structure was such that a weekday birth paid about $498. However, hospitals are often short-staffed on weekends, so weekend births cost $748 Doctors also have a limit on the number of births they can perform per month. So Shuen came up with a plan.
He introduced to their patients a drug called misoprostol without their knowledge and consent. It’s used to induce labor, and he did it to ensure that he could deliver on weekends if possible. One day in 2016, five different women went into rapid labor. He was caught when nurses started finding evidence of the drug inside patients. But the process was slow, and Shuen did it for years before his license was finally revoked.
6. Being drunk and then committing a major fraud
There's an old saying about taking a sip of liquid courage before you do something bold. This simply refers to a quick sip of alcohol to calm your nerves and give you a boost of confidence. It actually works for some people, but you probably don't want your doctor to be one of those people.
Marco Antonio Chavez was a psychiatrist in San Diego when he lost his license to practice while intoxicated The man was no teetotaler either; he was accused of drinking two 8-ounce glasses. or one pint vodka mixed with cloves. That's just over 10 standard shots. He claimed the booze, which he started drinking at six in the morning, was intended to make him stop drinking because it tasted so bad.
All this happened back in 2018. In 2020, Chavez made headlines again for Tricare scam , a company that handles health benefits for military personnel. He was ordered to pay back more than $783,000.
5. Posting racist messages on work-related social media
When you go to the doctor, you rarely have a window into what that person is like in their day-to-day life. You don't really need a window into that, because they're not your friend, they're the doctor. But thanks to social media, a huge number of people are completely incapable of keeping their personal feelings to themselves, even when those feelings are just plain awful. Even a racist one, as in the case of one Ohio doctor.
Lara Kollab had only been working at the Cleveland Clinic for three months when the clinic felt the need to fire her after someone pointed out Kollab's tweets. In since-deleted tweets, Kollab talked about deliberately assigning Jewish patients wrong medications . Then she lost my second residence permit in California for providing false or misleading information during an interview.
A year later she revoked license , permanently banning her from practicing osteopathic medicine in Ohio.
4. They claim to cure Ebola and other life-threatening diseases with sound
Ebola is one of the most terrifying diseases in existence. It kills up to 90% of infected patients, and it’s not a pleasant experience. The disease causes your cells to break down, and you essentially bleed out of every orifice you have. You don’t want to get it. And if you do get it, don’t let William Edwin Gray III treat you, because there’s no point in treating the man. In fact, they’ve revoked his license.
Gray claimed to be a homeopath but graduated in 1970 Stanford School of Medicine. He sold drugs for Ebola and other diseases on his personal website as audio files in MP3 format They cost $5.
The treatment doesn't even rise to the level of homeopathy, so it's a weird two-layered scam. He stated some nonsense on his website about how the homeopathic solution creates clusters of molecules that emit energy that can then be amplified and recorded as a sound wave, and that's what he was selling.
Gray claimed that his treatment treats malaria in Sierra Leone. Despite his claims that he could also cure swine flu, headaches and more, the state medical board revoked his license.
3. Brand sex slaves as a cult
When you delve into the entire NVIXM cult, there's a lot to unpack, but very little that's good. But among all the crazy stories, there's one that some people have overlooked, involving a doctor who was involved with the group.
In 2021, Danielle Roberts was disbarred for engaging in 12 forms of professional misconduct, the most notable of which was using an instrument designed to cauterize wounds to put initials cult leader on 17 different women who were used as sex slaves. The brands were meant to signify that they were the property of the cult leader, a man who is currently serving 120 years in prison on a variety of charges. The branding was also done without anesthesia, to deliberately to cause pain Her lawyer said the ruling would be appealed because as a sex slave brander for the cult, she was not acting as a medical professional, so the rules should not apply to her in that case.
2. Installation of unnecessary pacemakers
Health care fraud is a big deal, and we've already seen some evidence of it from one or two shady doctors. When fraud starts to involve implanting things into people, it really goes off the rails, and that's exactly what happened in Kentucky with Anis Chalhoub.
Not only did Chalhoub lose his license, he was also ordered to pay $250,000 and sentenced to more than three years in prison . His crime was giving people unnecessary pacemakers. The data showed that of the 234 procedures he gave patients between 2007 and 2011, dozens of them were made when patients did not meet the criteria. In some cases, he told patients they would die unless they got a pacemaker when their condition was not terminal.
As you might guess, every time he performed an operation, he was paid for it, which was his main motive for the fraud.
1. Declaring a child dead when there was none
This story doesn’t have a happy ending, but it could have been a lot worse, and one particularly negligent doctor is to blame. Back in 2013, a baby was born in a hospital in eastern China and the doctor delivering the baby declared him dead. It’s a harrowing experience for any parent, but imagine how they must have felt two days later when the funeral home where the baby was sent for cremation revealed that the child was, in fact, still alive.
The workers notified the hospital and the boy was returned for treatment, but the prognosis was not encouraging. The child appeared to have a deformity of the respiratory system, and the hospital claimed to be treating him from humanitarian considerations ".
The doctor who pronounced him dead , lost his license, and the story ended with the explanation that the child was in critical condition and there were no further updates.
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