Ramon Scruggs, MD (Santa Ana, CA)
Accused of improperly providing steriod prescriptions to professional baseball players, business executives, and police officers. Read more ...
 Samuel L. Krakow, MD (Drexel Hill, PA)
Dr. Krakow was arrested and accused of trading prescription drugs for sex. Read more ...
 Yong Am Park, MD (Jasper, FL)
Dr. Park was charged with two counts of assisting in obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Read more ...
 Kevin Antario Brown, MD (Los Angeles, CA)
Dr. Brown was jailed on charges of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old female patient and an undercover, female LAPD officer. Many other former patients of the doctor have come forward to make similar allegations. Read more ...
 Antoine F. Cawog, MD (Irwin, PA)
"Authorities allege that he was selling prescriptions to patients, often for pain medicine, without doing proper examinations or any examinations at all." Link. Dr. Cawog is also charged with money laundering and was ordered to remain in jail pending trial. He is deemed by prosecutors to be a flight risk due to allegedly having sent $1.7 million out of the country. Read more ...
 Dennis M Nigro, MD (Los Angeles, CA)
Dr. Nigro, a married plastic surgeon, is accusing of twice having sex with one of his patients. Link. Further complicating matters, the husband of the patient with whom Dr. Nigro is alleged to have had the affair was also his patient at the time. Read more ...
 Jan R. Adams, MD (San Diego, CA)
Donda Wast, the mother of rapper Kayne West, died on November 10, 2007 of complications from tummy tuck and breast reduction surgery performed by Los Angeles surgeon Dr. Jan Adams, MD. Dr. Adams has four prior medical malpractice judgments against him and two conviction for DUI. Read more ...
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George Mathew, MD (Seattle, WA)
"State health officials have suspended the medical license of a Seattle doctor accused of negligence, incompetence and malpractice in the treatment of four patients at a small, rural hospital in Pend Oreille County last July (2007)." Link. Among the allegations were failing to treat a 69-year-old man who was suffering a heart attack for seven hours and failing to stitch up the severely lacerated leg of a patient he planned to discharge. Here is a link to the full reports from the Washington Department of Health on Dr. Mathew's case.
 Addicted Doctors. "Nearly all (US) states have confidential rehab programs that let doctors continue practicing as long as they stick with the treatment regimen. Nationwide, as many as 8,000 doctors may be in such programs, by one estimate." Link. While in these rehab programs run by the state medical boards, the substance abuse problem of the physician is kept confidential, thus, the patients are never told. Youtube video on topic.
 Dr. Russell Reid (London, UK)
"Dr. Russell Reid, a consultant psychiatrist and a specialist on gender identity disorder, has been accused by both patients and colleagues, of serious professional misconduct and of breaching international guidelines on the treatment of gender disorders." Link. "The UK's best-known expert on transsexualism was today (May 25, 2007) found guilty of serious professional misconduct for rushing five patients into sex-changing treatments, but avoided being struck off." Link.
Dr. Colin Peter Sinclair (Windsor, Ontario CA)
"Sinclair has been charged with three counts of possession of oxycodone in 10 milligram, 40 milligram and 80 milligram strengths, one count of possession of Percocet and one count of possession of hydromorphone, all for the purpose of trafficking. All are opioid pain relievers and are considered to carry a high risk of abuse and addiction. He's also been charged with one count of possession of marijuana." Link. (6-23-2008)
 Cecil B. Jacobson, MD (Northern Virginia)
In 1992, Dr. Jacobson, a fertility specialist, was convicted of 52 felony counts of fraud stemmed from his misconduct in implementing a fraudulent sperm donor scheme in which he injected his own sperm into his patients instead of the promised sperm of the patient's husband or an anonymous donor. He was sentenced to five years in prison and had his medical license revoked.
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