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

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

by Kristina Fiore, Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting, 51˶

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Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

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

A Tennessee woman allegedly 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 -- 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 more than a decade after his involuntary manslaughter conviction in the pop singer's death. (People)

A 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 of harassing and threatening behavior. (Iowa Capital Sun)

Peru Emergency Physicians has 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, . 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, .

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

Ohio doctor Eskender Getachew, MD, was convicted for to his patients, according to the DOJ.

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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.