Cancer doc admits scam, giving patients unneeded chemo

[KamaAina]

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2014/09/16/oakland-county-cancer-doctor-fighting-keep-feds-email/15716679/

Dr. Farid Fata, who was charged with intentionally misdiagnosing healthy people with cancer and pumping dying patients with chemo to make money, pleaded guilty.

"It is my choice," Fata said on Tuesday of his surprise guilty plea, which included rattling off the names of numerous drugs he prescribed for his patients over the years. In each admission, he uttered these words:

"I knew that it was medically unnecessary."...

"In this case, we had Dr. Fata administering chemotherapy to people who didn't need it, essentially putting poison into their bodies and telling them that they had cancer when they didn't have cancer," McQuade told the Free Press. "The idea that a doctor would lie to a patient just to make money is shocking ... Dr. Fata was unique in that he saw patients not as people to heal, but as commodities to exploit."

[lovuian]

1. OMG!

Capitalists would be proud of him

Medical care for profit most horrible system ever

[tridim]

2. I hope this blows the issue wide open like the NFL domestic violence issue has.

Because I know for a fact that his scam isn't even close to rare. It's common practice.

[NCarolinawoman]

3. UGH!!!

[Tansy_Gold]

4. "Dr. Fata was unique...." Uh, I don't think so. n/t

[A Little Weird]

5. Thank goodness the nurse reported him

I wonder why it took so long for charges to be brought. It sounds like the state dropped the ball but it doesn't really give a lot of detail.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. OMG! OMG!

[lpbk2713]

7. Must have slept late that day they went over the Hypocratic Oath at med school.

OMFG

[KamaAina]

12. Hippocratic

sometimes parodied for scum like this as "Hypocritical".

[meow2u3]

8. I'm sure American Greed will profile this scammer

...better known as Dr. Death. I hope they throw the book at him.

[951-Riverside]

9. This is why I always get a 2nd opinion for a diagnosis like this

I don't care what it costs, if a doc says I have a life threatening illness I will always get a 2nd opinion.

What a scumbag.

McQuade told the Free Press. "The idea that a doctor would lie to a patient just to make money is shocking ... Dr. Fata was unique in that he saw patients not as people to heal, but as commodities to exploit.

...c'mon McQuade did, some medical association slip you money under the table to make that statement?

Everyone and their grandmother knows these doctors exist. Everyone knows about the doctors who will over prescribe drugs or literally take their patient's arm and legs to make a quick buck.

[C Moon]

10. Wow.

Here's the bastard's mansion:

[99Forever]

11. A prime example of why for profit medicine is morally...

...bankrupt and should be illegal.