$100M Botched Circumcision Case; Perry Trial Date Set; Euthanasia Doc Pleads Guilty

Florida doctor Berto Lopez, MD, who was found liable for $100 million in a medical malpractice case involving an infant’s botched circumcision, has been linked to several other mishandled procedures including six patient deaths. (USA Today)

A trial date has been set for Salvador Plasencia, MD, one of the doctors charged in Matthew Perry’s death. Plasencia will be tried alongside alleged drug dealer Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen.” The trial is set to begin on March 4, 2025. (CNN)

Former doctor Stephen Miller, MD, who lost his license after being convicted of tax evasion in 2006, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 5 years’ probation after admitting that he helped a 59-year-old woman who was not terminally ill kill herself in a New York motel room last fall. (New York Times)

A Georgia couple is suing Emory Healthcare alleging its lack of treatment when they arrived at the hospital led to the death of their unborn child. (WSBTV)

Experts are calling for the public inquiry into the case of Lucy Letby — the British nurse convicted of killing seven babies — to be delayed. Statisticians and neonatal experts say the investigation and the evidence used to convict Letby were flawed. However, the September 10 hearing will not scrutinize those questions. (New York Times)

Muhammad Mirza, MD, the New Jersey physician sentenced to federal prison for healthcare fraud, surrendered his license in Florida. Mirza also had his license suspended in New Jersey for questionable penile, eye, and breast injections. (Miami Herald)

Fifteen women have accused California hepatologist John Carl Hoefs, MD, of sexual abuse. Hoefs has previously been charged criminally for groping two female patients. (ABC 7)

A woman who went into cardiac arrest after an emergency surgery to remove parts of her large intestine after they had died says it was due to semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and is suing Novo Nordisk, charging that the company did not adequately describe the drug’s risks. (CBS News)

Pennsylvania radiologist Ashok Panigrahy, MD, has been charged with transporting and processing material portraying the sexual exploitation of a minor. (WPXI)

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it conspired to fix the price of a generic drug, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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