The horror of malicious medical malpractice
A few days ago, NBC’s news program broadcast here in Covington told the heartbreaking story of an “oncologist who inflicted excessive and painful cancer treatments on hundreds of patients — many of whom didn’t have the disease in the first place.” The cancer doctor wept as he was sentenced to spend 45 years in prison for his crimes and malicious medical malpractice. The physician worked in “an empire of upscale