Waste Company's 'Concealed Human Torso' Suit; Impostor Nurse Reportedly Rips Out IVs

Monarch Waste Technologies is suing Sanford Health and its environmental services management company alleging it inappropriately delivered a "human torso concealed in a plastic container" to the medical waste company. (KFYR)

A Tennessee woman allegedly pretending to be a nurse reportedly told two emergency department patients they were going to be discharged, then started removing their IVs and other monitoring equipment. Lydia Brock now faces nine charges. (ABC News 9)

Brenda Gowesky, MD, is suing the Maine medical board -- her former employer -- alleging wrongful termination. Gowesky had been fired from Northern Light Health in 2017, and took a job as medical board director about 2 years later. But things went south, Gowesky alleged, when a Northern Light representative said it didn't want Gowesky handling any of its cases. (WABI5)

Michael Jackson's former doctor Conrad Murray, MD, has opened up his own medical institute more than a decade after his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the pop singer's death. (People)

A Supreme Court decision will allow more than 230 men to bring suit against Ohio State University over claims of alleged abuse by university doctor, the late Richard Strauss, MD. (PBS NewsHour)

Brett Snodgrass, MD -- the Missouri doctor who is taking the Iowa medical board to court to become a physician in that state -- allegedly has a history of harassing and threatening behavior. (Iowa Capital Sun)

Peru Emergency Physicians has sued St. Margaret's Health-Peru alleging the now-shuttered facility owes them just over $676,000. (Shaw Local News Tribune)

Georgia surgeon Mark Anthony Winchell, MD, is back behind bars, arrested on charges of child molestation. He was previously arrested in 2021 after allegedly sending explicit material, including nude pictures of himself, to a 14-year-old. (WJCL)

Illinois pharmacist Tangtang Zhao was convicted for stealing COVID-19 vaccination cards from the pharmacy where he worked and selling them online to people across the country, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

An appeals court has upheld the conviction and sentence for former North Carolina physician Jong Whan Kim, MD, for operating a pill mill, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Ohio doctor Eskender Getachew, MD, was convicted for illegally prescribing opioids and benzodiazepines to his patients, according to the DOJ.

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