Gun Pulled on Hospital Workers; Doc’s Drano Poisoning Case Dismissed; PT Kickbacks

A Michigan man was arrested for allegedly pulling a gun on three hospital workers while they were on a break. (Click On Detroit)

A Texas woman was arrested after allegedly assaulting emergency department staff, spitting in the face of one nurse and kicking another. (KSLA)

The case against a California dermatologist who was accused of trying to poison her husband with Drano has been dismissed. (People)

Iowa physician Raymond Tamburro, MD, was charged with unprofessional conduct by the state’s medical board after being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a patient. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

A Tennessee nurse was arrested after he was allegedly found with more than 115,000 images of child pornography. (WABI)

Transgender youths are taking legal efforts to block the Trump administration’s demands to hand over their medical records. (New York Times)

A New York physical therapy (PT) clinic manager was convicted of paying cash kickbacks to ambulette drivers who recruited Medicare patients to the clinic, and for falsifying medical records to show that therapists who weren’t at the clinic treated the patients, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The Federal Trade Commission said it has required Ascension Health Alliance to divest several surgery centers before it can complete its acquisition of AmSurg.

Two physicians in Massachusetts were accused of illegally prescribing controlled substances, including to patients with a known history of substance use disorder or overdoses, the state’s attorney general announced.

Tennessee nurse practitioner Heather Marks was convicted for prescribing nearly a million opioid pills to almost 1,000 patients over about a year and a half, including to patients whom she allegedly knew were selling opioids on the street, the DOJ said.

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