Video: Nurse Attacked; Doc’s High-Speed Arrest; Fake Ob/Gyn Pleads Guilty

Surveillance video shows an attack on an emergency nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida by a man who bashed her on the head three times before throwing her to the floor. (7 News Miami)

The trial began for Florida plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski, MD, who is accused of killing a lawyer who was representing defendants in a medical billing lawsuit Kosowski filed against his former employer. (Hanford Sentinel)

In other news from the Sunshine State, a Florida emergency physician who said he was running late to an event was arrested after being clocked racing down a highway at 105 miles per hour, according to a police report. (News 4 Jax)

Executives at Prime Healthcare are suing the California Nurses Association and National Nurses United, alleging they were targeted by nurses who posted fliers in public places that had information about their private homes. (New York Post)

A former VA nurse in Wisconsin is facing a felony charge after allegedly removing oxygen from a dying hospice patient. (News 8 Now)

The owner of a health clinic in New Jersey pleaded guilty to fraud charges for providing ob/gyn services without a medical license, the state’s attorney general announced.

A podiatrist in Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison after more than a dozen women reported that he sexually abused them during treatment and recovery from surgery. (KPTV)

The family of a pregnant woman sued the Texas attorney general, claiming she died because she was denied an abortion. (ABC News)

And two women in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit over being denied abortion care after learning that their fetuses had fatal diagnoses. (News on 6)

Connecticut naturopathic physician Jose Mahfoud, MD, ND, was arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a juvenile and giving them methamphetamine. (WTNH)

Pennsylvania internist Robert Zewe Jr., DO, pleaded guilty to agreeing to pay for sex with an underage girl during a sting operation. (YourErie.com)

Ophthalmologist John Michaelos, MD, and his eye clinic will pay $350,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to federal insurers over unnecessary transcranial Doppler tests, federal prosecutors said.

Pennsylvania family medicine physician Raphael Kon, DO, was sentenced to 14 to 48 months in prison for improperly prescribing high levels of controlled substances. (Wyoming County Press Examiner)

A woman is suing a South Carolina hospital for allegedly failing to tell her about a lung nodule discovered incidentally on a cardiac scan. By the time the error was caught, the woman’s cancer had metastasized and her diagnosis was terminal, according to the suit. (Live 5 News)

A women’s soccer player is suing University of Louisville Health and two doctors for allegedly failing to diagnose a heart condition, which she says resulted in an on-field cardiac arrest last year. (ESPN)

Researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH over Trump administration maneuvers to cancel scientific grants that include certain keywords. (The Guardian)