Police Search for Wanted Gastro Doc; Risky Surgery Suit; Doc Hit Dementia Patient?

Police are searching for Louisiana gastroenterologist David Beary, MD, who is wanted on sexual battery charges. (WDSU)

Three former employees of an Illinois hospital allege in a new lawsuit that surgeons put patients at risk by leaving them unattended under anesthesia for long periods, breaching sterile technique, and more. (WIFR)

A Texas woman has filed a federal complaint against two hospitals that she said denied her care during a miscarriage because of the state’s abortion ban. (People)

Samer Sannoufi, MD, of California, will lose his medical license after pleading guilty to sexual battery charges. (NBC Los Angeles)

South Carolina family medicine physician Stanley Winger McCloy, MD, is facing charges for allegedly knocking a dementia patient to the ground at a memory care facility. (WLTX)

The parents of a 2-year-old girl who was involved in a drowning incident have sued to stop Texas Children’s Hospital from testing if she’s brain dead. (Texas Tribune)

A patient is suing a Florida hospital alleging she was sexually assaulted multiple times by a nurse during her stay last year. (WFLA)

Florida emergency medicine physician Edward Scott Morrison, DO, was indicted for allegedly prescribing at least 25,500 pills of controlled substances, including more than 22,000 opioids and 3,000 stimulants. (WEAR)

Oregon Health and Science University has sued a local public broadcasting company to block a district attorney’s order to release records related to its former CEO’s termination, arguing it would expose protected information. The CEO was hired in December and terminated just 4 months later, after reportedly raising concerns about patient safety. (Becker’s Hospital Review)

The Federal Trade Commission announced that it filed an amicus brief in an antitrust case alleging that Johnson & Johnson maintained a monopoly in the market for ustekinumab (Stelara) through anticompetitive conduct.