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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCancer doc admits scam, giving patients unneeded chemo
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2014/09/16/oakland-county-cancer-doctor-fighting-keep-feds-email/15716679/Dr. Farid Fata, who was charged with intentionally misdiagnosing healthy people with cancer and pumping dying patients with chemo to make money, pleaded guilty.
"It is my choice," Fata said on Tuesday of his surprise guilty plea, which included rattling off the names of numerous drugs he prescribed for his patients over the years. In each admission, he uttered these words:
"I knew that it was medically unnecessary."...
"In this case, we had Dr. Fata administering chemotherapy to people who didn't need it, essentially putting poison into their bodies and telling them that they had cancer when they didn't have cancer," McQuade told the Free Press. "The idea that a doctor would lie to a patient just to make money is shocking ... Dr. Fata was unique in that he saw patients not as people to heal, but as commodities to exploit."
"It is my choice," Fata said on Tuesday of his surprise guilty plea, which included rattling off the names of numerous drugs he prescribed for his patients over the years. In each admission, he uttered these words:
"I knew that it was medically unnecessary."...
"In this case, we had Dr. Fata administering chemotherapy to people who didn't need it, essentially putting poison into their bodies and telling them that they had cancer when they didn't have cancer," McQuade told the Free Press. "The idea that a doctor would lie to a patient just to make money is shocking ... Dr. Fata was unique in that he saw patients not as people to heal, but as commodities to exploit."
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Cancer doc admits scam, giving patients unneeded chemo (Original Post)
KamaAina
Sep 2014
OP
Must have slept late that day they went over the Hypocratic Oath at med school.
lpbk2713
Sep 2014
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lovuian
(19,362 posts)1. OMG!
Capitalists would be proud of him
Medical care for profit most horrible system ever
tridim
(45,358 posts)2. I hope this blows the issue wide open like the NFL domestic violence issue has.
Because I know for a fact that his scam isn't even close to rare. It's common practice.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)3. UGH!!!
Tansy_Gold
(17,862 posts)4. "Dr. Fata was unique...." Uh, I don't think so. n/t
A Little Weird
(1,754 posts)5. Thank goodness the nurse reported him
I wonder why it took so long for charges to be brought. It sounds like the state dropped the ball but it doesn't really give a lot of detail.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)6. OMG! OMG!
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)7. Must have slept late that day they went over the Hypocratic Oath at med school.
OMFG
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)12. Hippocratic
sometimes parodied for scum like this as "Hypocritical".
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)8. I'm sure American Greed will profile this scammer
...better known as Dr. Death. I hope they throw the book at him.
951-Riverside
(7,234 posts)9. This is why I always get a 2nd opinion for a diagnosis like this
I don't care what it costs, if a doc says I have a life threatening illness I will always get a 2nd opinion.
What a scumbag.
McQuade told the Free Press. "The idea that a doctor would lie to a patient just to make money is shocking ... Dr. Fata was unique in that he saw patients not as people to heal, but as commodities to exploit.
...c'mon McQuade did, some medical association slip you money under the table to make that statement?
Everyone and their grandmother knows these doctors exist. Everyone knows about the doctors who will over prescribe drugs or literally take their patient's arm and legs to make a quick buck.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)10. Wow.
Here's the bastard's mansion:
99Forever
(14,524 posts)11. A prime example of why for profit medicine is morally...
...bankrupt and should be illegal.