Med Mal News

Website Slanders Doctor and Must Come Down

A New York state judge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the operation of a website set up by medical malpractice plaintiff Arye Sachs, because it slandered a doctor by comparing him to Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. The latter was a doctor at Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War; he was the most notorious of the team of doctors that decided which prisoners should work, which should be subjected to medical experiments; and which should be killed in the gas chambers. Justice Arthur Diamond found that the medical malpractice plaintiff's website's comparison between Mengele and Dr. Richard Matano was not a “protected qualified privilege.” The judge deemed the man's statements “bald” and “reckless” and concluded they were made “in disregard of the truth.”

First Murder Conviction Against a U.S. Doctor for Overprescription of Drugs

In October, a doctor in Roland Heights, CA, was convicted of three murders stemming from her over-prescription of a slew of dangerous drugs to patients who had no legitimate need for them. According to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the case against Dr. Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, the verdict is the first instance in the country in which a doctor has been found guilty of the crime of murder for overprescribing medications. The three young men who died were among the many patients to whom the convicted doctor prescribed medications, often without keeping records of their care.

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Website Slanders Doctor and Must Come Down

A New York state judge has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the operation of a website set up by medical malpractice plaintiff Arye Sachs, because it slandered a doctor by comparing him to Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. The latter was a doctor at Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War; he was the most notorious of the team of doctors that decided which prisoners should work, which should be subjected to medical experiments; and which should be killed in the gas chambers. Justice Arthur Diamond found that the medical malpractice plaintiff's website's comparison between Mengele and Dr. Richard Matano was not a “protected qualified privilege.” The judge deemed the man's statements “bald” and “reckless” and concluded they were made “in disregard of the truth.”

First Murder Conviction Against a U.S. Doctor for Overprescription of Drugs

In October, a doctor in Roland Heights, CA, was convicted of three murders stemming from her over-prescription of a slew of dangerous drugs to patients who had no legitimate need for them. According to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, which prosecuted the case against Dr. Hsiu Ying “Lisa” Tseng, the verdict is the first instance in the country in which a doctor has been found guilty of the crime of murder for overprescribing medications. The three young men who died were among the many patients to whom the convicted doctor prescribed medications, often without keeping records of their care.

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