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Doc Confesses to Killing Wife, Police Say; Nurse Reprimanded for Cursing at Toddler

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

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Legal Break over a blindfolded Lady Justice statue holding scales.

Orlando-area physician Thomas Wentzell, MD, was arrested and , according to local police. (WFTV9)

Twenty lawsuits were filed at Four Winds hospitals in Lewisboro and Saratoga Springs, New York. (Rockland/Westchester Journal News)

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, MD, who has served as medical director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children's Hospital Los Angeles for more than a decade, is facing a lawsuit from a former patient . (The Economist)

A nurse in Rocky Mount, Virginia, was reprimanded by the state Department of Health Professions for ; Hoffman is said to have referred to the language used with the patient as "terms of endearment." (WDBJ7)

Basem Hamid, MD, a neurologist and pain medicine physician in Houston, has agreed to pay nearly $1 million to of neurostimulator electrodes, according to federal prosecutors.

Two arrests were made of Hamid Mirshojae, DO, who was shot earlier this year outside the clinic where he practiced in Woodland Hills, California. (KTLA5)

Iowa nurse Becky Sue Manning, charged in the death of a nursing home resident, after entering an Alford plea of guilty. (Iowa Capital Dispatch)

A federal court in Indianapolis ordered Netflix to after the streaming service revealed without her consent that she is the daughter of Donald Cline, MD, a former fertility doctor who secretly used his own sperm to inseminate patients. (FOX59)

A trio of hospitals run by Santa Clara County in California are , including blood-filled vials, human flesh, and fentanyl, according to the local district attorney. (NBC Bay Area)

A Michigan woman was sentenced to prison for , according to the state's attorney general.

Pineville Community Health Center in Bell County, Kentucky, filed a complaint against two members of its board, . (WYMT)

HHS fined Children's Hospital Colorado more than stemming in part from email phishing schemes and cyberattacks.

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    Jennifer Henderson joined 51˶ as an enterprise and investigative writer in Jan. 2021. She has covered the healthcare industry in NYC, life sciences and the business of law, among other areas.