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Doc Shot By Police; Doc Spent Embezzled Funds on Doggy Daycare; Joyner Suit Update

— A weekly roundup of healthcare's encounters with the courts

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Maine doctor Paul Gosselin, DO, was in New York after reportedly threatening to shoot them. Gosselin's license had been temporarily suspended in 2021 for granting COVID vaccine exemptions to more than 100 healthcare workers he'd never examined. (Bangor Daily News)

Michael Lucchesi, MD, former head of emergency medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York, was accused of from the hospital and spending it on travel, personal trainers, and a high-end doggy daycare facility. (New York Daily News)

A jail nurse in Indiana was accused of trying to smuggle drugs into the facility inside a . (WSBT)

Dharmesh Patel, MD, the California radiologist who drove his Tesla off a cliff with his wife and kids inside, was on Monday. He'll have to wear a GPS bracelet and undergo weekly drug testing. (CBS Sacramento)

An Ohio judge ordered that will remain defendants in a case against the Mayo Clinic brought by Michael Joyner, MD. While the judge sided with Mayo on academic freedom allegations, retaliation claims can move forward. Joyner's feud with Mayo began when it suspended him without pay for a week, reportedly over his public comments on various medical topics. (ABC 6)

A Guatemalan national who used a fake identity to illegally obtain a federally-funded kidney transplant was sentenced to 16 months in prison, .

Iowa's medical board of Venkateswara Karuparthy, MD, who had been criminally charged with sexually abusing a patient. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

A Kansas appeals court of orthopedic surgeon Christopher Kain, MD, who battered an emergency department nurse-director after she stood up for a patient who was screaming in pain. (Topeka Capital-Journal)

An Ohio nurse was caught on camera " next to a patient in bed at a nursing home. (WLWT)

A man who allegedly and stole an elderly woman's credit card was arrested in Florida. (FOX Carolina)

Missouri physician David Parks, MD, and two of his employees were indicted for including hydrocodone, oxycodone, and amphetamines. (FOX 2)

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    Kristina Fiore leads MedPage’s enterprise & investigative reporting team. She’s been a medical journalist for more than a decade and her work has been recognized by Barlett & Steele, AHCJ, SABEW, and others. Send story tips to k.fiore@medpagetoday.com.