Loading ...When it comes to money, some people money problems and you never know how desperate they are to cheat. Doctors with drug habits, (I heard is common) addicted gamblers, robbed blind due to a divorce etc etc. Some are just plain greedy. Never satisfied, never have enough money.
Years ago when working in a defense plant with big complicated blue prints, whenever I found one mistake, I knew there were others, and had be extra careful. Some engineers were 100% perfect. All their phone numbers were always on the drawings, and I would sometimes call them to straighten things out. I’m thinking its the same with Doctors. If you find one bad one, you can figure there are others.
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A Michigan doctor who misdiagnosed patients with cancer and then bombarded them with unnecessary treatments will have to face his victims — who lost their health, savings and trust — at an emotional sentencing hearing that opens Monday.
The breadth of Fata’s misdeeds was laid bare last month in a sentencing memo from prosecutors, who revealed for the first time that a total of 553 people allegedly got unnecessary treatment — amounting to 9,000 injections or infusions that cost insurance companies and patients millions.
In requesting a 175-year sentence, prosecutors compared Fata to Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years even though he was in his 70s.
“In many ways, he is worse than Madoff, in that he wreaked damage on not only his victims’ bank accounts, but their bodies,” they wrote.
(M.C. note, gov’t knew about Madoff, and looked the other way because he was generating revenue. I’m sure gov’t is still looking away on lots of things that help generate income for unneeded excess people)
“We need to uncover and correct the fundamental reasons behind the collective failure of our medical system at all levels which enabled this despicable fraud [to continue] for such a long time,” said the doctor, Soe Maunglay.
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How Whistle-Blower Helped Expose Michigan Cancer Doctor
Earlier this week numerous former patients spoke against the doctor. Some of the victims who spoke never had cancer, others were over-treated and some had treatment for different cancers than the ones for which they were diagnosed because it brought in more money.
“I misused my talents, yes, and permitted this sin to enter me because of power and greed,” Fata told the court.