Propublica: Eat What You Kill. A Montana Hospital Let a Doctor Continue Practicing Oncology

[erronis]

even although they became suspicious of his performance, billing, and honesty.

https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology

Tough story to read.

We have a 51-year-old patient with metastatic lung cancer, diagnosed 11 years ago, Sasich remembered the doctor saying.

“There’s no way,” Sasich interrupted.

Well, he’s been treated for 11 years, the doctor explained.

“You don’t live 11 years after a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis,” Sasich said. “That doesn’t make any sense.”
Between patients, Sasich reviewed Warwick’s chart. Something must have been misread along a medical game of telephone, he reasoned, or he’d missed some great advancement in cancer treatment. He found the 2009 report that prompted the cancer diagnosis. A smoker at the time, Warwick had seen an ear, nose and throat doctor about a tiny lump on his neck. The ENT had sent a sample of cells from Warwick’s neck to the lab. A few days later he wrote in the file that they were “most likely consistent” with cancer.

That is not a cancer diagnosis, Sasich thought.

A lot of very suspicious treatments and deaths - covered up by the hospital.

[Lonestarblue]

1. Fraud is just one of the reasons the US has the most expensive healthcare in the world.

I have never understood the rationale that we cannot afford universal healthcare when just cutting out insurance company profits would decrease costs significantly.

[sorcrow]

2. What an effing villian

And the personality cult that supported him. Sounds like everyone was wearing blinders or maybe blindfolds. As a nurse, this really saddens me.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow