Infant Death Lawsuit; Nurse’s Bleach Assault; Patient’s $37M Award

A Seattle couple sued Salem Hospital in Oregon, alleging the hospital staff told them to drive their deceased 9-month-old son’s body home in the back seat of their car. (KTVB)

A nurse’s aide in New Jersey admitted to spraying an elderly resident of a nursing facility with bleach, according to the state’s attorney general.

Alabama neurosurgeon Shawn Broxton Clark, MD, who is facing child pornography charges, was rushed to the hospital following an apparent suicide attempt. (FOX 10)

Lincoln Erickson, MD, a former medical resident in Detroit, was sentenced to about 9 years in prison after pleading guilty to child sex abuse charges. (Click On Detroit)

A Missouri woman won a $37 million judgment against pain management physician Ramis Gheith, MD, after alleging substandard care and unnecessary medical treatments. (FOX 2)

California physician Sunil Sujan, MD, lost a defamation suit he brought against his hospital and is on the hook for its $313,000 legal tab. (HRD)

A Michigan nurse was charged with child abuse after a 4-month-old girl in his care was found to have multiple broken bones and bruising. (WOOD)

The trial began for Arizona internist Dung Nguyen, DO, who was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 former patients. (KOLD)

A Maryland nurse was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to taking morphine meant for a 10-year-old child recovering from cardiac surgery, the state’s attorney general said.

Two more hospitals signed agreements with the Justice Department (DOJ) to not provide gender care — New York University Langone and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center — bringing the total to six. (AP)

The DOJ alleged that two Georgia lab executives targeted faith-based communities and senior citizens with testing schemes that bilked Medicare out of millions of dollars.