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Medical Ethics
Oakton, VA
News
‘Addiction Medicine Family Doctor’ Ran Oakton Pill Mill, Loses Properties After Prison Sentence
A Virginia doctor who called himself an “Addiction Medicine Family Doctor” is paying the price after prosecutors say he ran an opioid pill mill that left multiple patients dead. David Allingham, 65, of Oakton, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in May and has now been ordered to forfeit more than $168,000, along with two properties, federal prosecutors in Alexandria announced. He must also pay $169,244 in restitution to three victims. According to court documents, Allingham owned Oakton Primary Care Center (OPCC) and advertised his “special training and skill in preventing, diagnosi…
Middlesex, NJ
News
Colonia Doctor Indicted In Sex Assaults Across 3 NJ Counties, Attorney General Says
A Middlesex County doctor accused of sexually assaulting patients at urgent care centers in three New Jersey counties has been indicted, authorities said. Gurvindra Johal, 57, of Colonia, was charged with two counts of sexual assault, 11 counts of criminal sexual contact, and two counts of falsifying or tampering with medical records, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Thursday, June 19. The incidents happened in Middlesex, Monmouth, and Essex counties, according to Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice. Investigators say five incidents happened in Middlesex County, three …
Frederick, MD
Police & Fire
Judge Grants Bond To Frederick Doctor Accused In Multiple Sexual Assault Cases: Police
A Maryland doctor accused of sexually assaulting multiple patients during bogus breast exams is being released on bond — despite prosecutors urging the judge to keep him behind bars. Dr. Syed Haque, 64, of Frederick, appeared before a judge this week for a bond hearing on two pending sexual assault cases, the Frederick Police Department announced on Thursday, May 22. During the hearing, the Frederick County State’s Attorney’s Office asked that Haque remain held without bond at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center. Instead, the judge granted him a $10,000 secured bond for each case. …
Waynesboro, PA
News
Lasik
Blamed In PA Officer, 26, Suicide: 'He Left A Note Saying It Took Everything From Him'
A Pennsylvania police officer’s suicide is raising urgent questions about the hidden risks of LASIK eye surgery, a procedure often marketed as safe, fast, and life-changing. For 26-year-old Ryan Kingerski, it was all of those things — but not in the way he hoped. “It just … it ruined his life. Ruined it. Completely ruined his life in 12 seconds,” said his father, Tim Kingerski, in an interview with WTAE Pittsburgh. ‘Witty, Charming, Smart’ Ryan, of Monroeville, was described as joyful, loyal, and magnetic. A graduate of Duquesne University and Central Catholic High School, he served for th…
York, PA
News
York County Dr. Accused Of Sexually Exploiting Patients While Prescribing Methadone: Affidavit
York County doctor sexually exploited his own patients during treatment, coercing vulnerable women into sex acts by threatening to cut off their access to methadone, according to a newly obtained affidavit reviewed by Daily Voice on Tuesday, May 20. Doctor Accused of Abusing Power While Practicing Dr. Christopher Jackson Davis, former medical director at Pyramid Healthcare’s Methadone Treatment Center in York, allegedly used his control over addiction medication to manipulate and assault patients between 2022 and 2024. A statewide grand jury recommended charges including Rape, Sexual Assault…
Frederick, MD
Police & Fire
Doctor From Frederick Faked Breast Exam To Sexually Assault Patient In Maryland: Police
A longtime Maryland doctor has been arrested and charged with rape and sex offenses, police say. Dr. Syed Haque, 64, of Frederick, has been indicted by a grand jury following an investigation into alleged sexual assault by the internist and primary care doctor who has been treating patients for more than 20 years. The charges stem from two separate medical visits to his office, both involving the same patient. According to the Frederick Police Department, a woman reported to detectives that Haque touched her inappropriately during an October 2024 visit, and again in January 2025.…
Morris Plains, NJ
Obituaries
RWJ Barnabas Physician Tatiana Mouravskaia Dies, Remembered As Patients' Greatest Advocate
Dr. Tatiana Mouravskaia, an infectious disease doctor and internist at RWJ Barnabas, died on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 61 years old, her obituary from Bernheim-Apter-Kreitzman Suburban Funeral Chapel says. Mouravskaia was devoted to her patients, working long hours, often without billing and for people with disadvantaged backgrounds, according to her obituary. "She would use every trick she learned over her 30-year career to make sure that they were able to get the care they needed in a system where few cared about their outcomes," her obituary reads. "It didn't endear her to hosp…
Framingham, MA
Police & Fire
Doctor Charged With Raping Ex-Patients At Framingham Hospital
A doctor who's been accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 women and several men in a lawsuit is now charged with raping two patients at a medical center in Framingham, authorities announced. Dr. Derrick Todd was charged with raping two women who were his patients, the Middlesex District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. The assaults are alleged to have happened in December 2022 and June 2023 during medical examinations. The rheumatologist had previously worked at multiple locations, including the Charles River Medical Associates in Framingham and Brigham a…
Woodbridge, NJ
News
Woodbridge MD Loses License After Exploiting Undocumented Workers, Faces Federal Prison: AG
A New Jersey doctor headed to prison who refused to let a woman she employed for lw wages get treated for a brain aneurysm had her medical license revoked, authorities announced this week. Dr. Harsha Sahni, a rheumatologist based in Middlesex County, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for conspiring with others to illegally recruit, conceal, and harbor two women from India to be household servants for low pay, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. Sahni, who practiced in Colonia, admitted in her guilty plea that she knew the women were in the country illegally and that…
Harrisburg, PA
News
Who’s Really In Charge In The OR? PA Physician Calls Out Dangerous Trends
Physicians are no longer the captains of the ship in patient care. Instead, hospital systems now steer the helm, often prioritizing cost-cutting measures over medical expertise. As a practicing physician, I’ve witnessed how these decisions undermine both patient safety and the autonomy of healthcare providers. One glaring example is the growing trend of asking or requiring physicians to work outside their scope of practice. In anesthesiology—my own specialty—a national shortage of anesthesiologists has driven up demand and salaries, creating hiring challenges for many institutions. To addres…
Tinton Falls-Eatontown, NJ
News
'Shocks The Conscience': Tinton Falls Doctor Who Exploited Undocumented Home Servants Sentenced
A doctor from Tinton Falls will spend time in prison for the abusive exploitation of two undocumented women from India, including denying one woman lifesaving surgery for a brain aneurysm, authorities said. Harsha Sahni, 68, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 28 to two years and three months in prison, New Jersey's U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said in a news release. The former rheumatologist with a practice in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conceal and harbor aliens and filing a false tax return. According to cour…
Jersey City, NJ
News
Prominent Jersey City Doctor Catfished Numerous Women For 10 Years, Victim Alleges
Her name was Ethan Schuman. At least, that's what Anna Akbari says Emily Slutsky called herself when she messaged her on OKCupid in 2011. Akbari, who holds a PhD, details how Slutsky catfished her and multiple other women in her new book, "There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish." When Akbari met "Ethan" on OKCupid, she found him to be brilliant and charming, and they exchanged messages, developing a deep connection, she tells Daily Voice. But Akbari realized something was up when Ethan kept canceling plans to chat on the phone or via webcam. His exc…
Gaithersburg, MD
News
Urgent Care Doctor Sentenced For Raping, Groping Women During Exams In Montgomery County
An urgent care doctor who groped, inappropriately touched, and sexually abused patients during routine exams will spend decades in prison, according to officials. Dr. Ishtiaq Malik, 59, of Lanham, was convicted earlier this year by a jury for targeting patients in his care at the Advanced Walk-In Urgent Care at 10800 Lockwood Drive in Silver Spring, where he was arrested last year. On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced he's been sentenced to 42 years in prison, with all but 24 to serve following by five years of supervised probation when he is …
Dorchester, MA
Police & Fire
Mass General Medical Assistant Groped Patient During Unnecessary Physical Exam: DA
A 29-year-old medical assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital is accused of groping a patient during an exam that her doctor had not requested or approved, authorities said. Leonardo Hernandez, of Jamaica Plain, is charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said. A judge ordered him to stay away from the hospital and the alleged victim as part of his release on personal recognizance. The patient called Boston police on April 12 to report the alleged incident that she said happened several weeks earlier. …
Worcester, MA
Police & Fire
Worcester Doc Who Prescribed Highly Addictive Drugs 'Like Candy' Convicted: Feds
A Worcester psychiatrist was convicted of illegally prescribing highly addictive drugs like Xanax, Klonopin, and Adderall, federal authorities announced. One FBI agent said the doctor gave out these prescriptions "as casually as Halloween candy." Mohamad Och, age 67, was found guilty of illegally prescribing a Schedule II drug and one count of illegally prescribing a Schedule IV narcotic following an 11-day trial, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. He potentially faces decades in jail when he is sentenced in February. Och owned and ran Island Counseling Center…
Cambridge, MA
News
Harvard Morgue Manager Kept Body Parts At Home, Sold Them To Black Market Network: Feds
A manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue is accused of stealing body parts from cadavers and selling them to several people across the country, federal investigators said. Cedric Lodge, 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire, is charged with interstate transport of stolen goods — the goods being human body parts, according to the US Department of Justice. His wife, Denise Lodge, is also charged in the case. Other members of the "nationwide network" who are also charged with interstate transport of stolen goods include: Katerina Maclean, age 44, of Salem, Massachusetts Joshua Taylor, 4…
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
News
Stillborn Baby Corpses Sold By Nationwide Network:
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Indictment
Two Pennsylvania men have been indicted in connection to purchasing human body parts— including stillborn babies— from medical students through social media, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Those indicted for conspiracy and interstate transport of stolen goods charges— the goods being human body parts— are as follows according to the US Department of Justice: Cedric Lodge, age 55, of Goffstown, New Hampshire. Katrina Maclean, age 44, of Salem, Massachusetts. Joshua Taylor, age 46, of West Lawn, Pennsylvania. Denise Lo…
Towson, MD
News
Pig-Heart Transplant Patient Not 'Deserving' Due To Criminal Past, Victim's Family Says
A man who made history as the world's first pig-heart transplant recipient was convicted of stabbing a man in the 1980s, making him undeserving of the transplant, the victim's family tells the Washington Post. David Bennett Sr., 57, received a genetically modified pig-heart to replace his own after he was diagnosed with terminal heart disease. Thirty-four years earlier, Bennett Sr. stabbed Edward Schumaker multiple times, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, The Post says. Bennett and family.UMD School of Medicine "He gets a second chance with a new heart — but I wish, in my opini…
Paterson, NJ
News
Daughter's DNA Test Finds NJ Mom Was Secretly Impregnated By Doctor, Lawsuit Says
A New Jersey woman filed a lawsuit against her OBGYN saying he impregnated her with his own sperm in the 1980s when she went in for artificial insemination and found out when her daughter took an online DNA test last year. Bianca Voss, of Clifton, accuses Dr. Martin Greenberg of "medical rape" in the suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. "Defendant stood over Plaintiff with her legs spread in stirrups and inserted his own bodily fluids into her," says the suit, filed May 25. "Plaintiff would never have agreed to allow Defendant to use his own sperm …
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Home Health Aide Caught On Hidden Camera Admits Physically Abusing Clifton Woman, 90
Faced with footage from a hidden camera, a home health aide from North Bergen admitted that she abused a 90-year-old patient in the bedridden woman’s Clifton home, authorities said Tuesday. Emma Llanes, 57, “put a cloth over the patient's face without reason, grabbed [her] by the back of the neck and pushed the patient’s head forward, slapped [her] legs and failed to assist the patient while getting dressed,” a complaint filed by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs (DCA) says. The footage was captured by a hidden camera that the victim’s family obtained from the DCA’s Safe Care Cam …
Ridgewood, NJ
News
Woman Tells Jury Former Valley Hospital Cardiologist Groped Her During Exam
One of six female patients who accused a former The Valley Hospital cardiologist of groping them during exams told her story in Passaic County Superior Court this week. The 57-year-old Bergen County woman alleged John Strobeck, 72, of Hawthorne, slipped his hand onto her breast for five-to-eight seconds during a 2012 examination, NorthJersey.com reports. The woman said she was alone in an exam room with Strobeck, former chief of cardiology at the Ridgewood hospital, when the incident occurred. Wearing a blouse and a bra, the woman was asked a few questions about her condition as the p…
Paterson, NJ
Police & Fire
Njag
: Clifton Ortho Doc Who Freely Doled Out Opioids Barred From Practice
CLIFTON, N.J. -- A Clifton orthopedic surgeon who prescribed addictive opioid painkillers to patients who abused the drugs, sold them on the black market or otherwise didn't need them has been temporarily barred from practicing medicine. Evangelos Megariotis told one patient that "anything that drugs can do on the street, my medications will do better and safer” and to “just call me,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. He also treated patient complaints of hyper tension, upper respiratory issues, ADD, PTS and other conditions with drugs -- among them, Xanax, Adderal…
Darien, CT
News
UConn Professor, Students Took 'Selfie' With Severed Heads At Yale Workshop
The head of orthodontics at the University of Connecticut is among those spotted, very much alive, in a photograph with severed heads taken as a "selfie," according to multiple reports. A college spokesman would not say whether disciplinary action has been taken against anyone including Dr. Flavio A. Uribe, D.D.S., an assistant professor who is program director and clinic director in the college's Division of Orthodontics. Graduate dental school students and Dr. Uribe reportedly took a selfie with two severed heads in the background, that were used last year for medical research d…
