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>> you thought it might be allergies or a cold. >> yeah. >> it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy. she had a sore throat. but perhaps the most troubling symptom for phyllis, a lifelong smoker, was that she had recently begun coughing up blood. >> i believe when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i dont think she tried to hide that from anybody. >> how did she find out about mark weinberger? >> i believe one of her co-workers may have seen billboards. >...

Allergies or a cold. >> yeah. >> it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy. she had a sore throat. but perhaps the most troubling symptom for phyllis, a lifelong smoker, was that she had recently begun coughing up blood. >> i believe when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i dont think she tried to hide that from anybody. >> how did she find out about mark weinberger? >> i believe one of her co-workers may have seen billboards. >> the nose dr. >> uh-huh. >...

Heading home for the holidays when her aunt called to tell her. >> i got that news, and you have all this time to think going across the country. and it was just like the strangest christmas present i ever could have imagined. >> shawns mother phyllis barnes, remember, had been a patient of weinbergers and filed the first malpractice suit against him. >> i wasnt sure at first if it was a good or bad thing or what. >> by february 2010, arrangements for weinbergers extradition had been completed a...

According to experts who testified at trial, the scan showed phyllis sinuses were actually clear. >> weinberger -- and i hesitate to call him a doctor -- treated phyllis barnes as nothing more than an insurance paycheck. >> according to the ear nose and throat doctor who discovered phyllis throat cancer two months later, the sinus surgery was not only unnecessary, it probably caused her cancer to grow more rapidly than it might have otherwise. ken allen told the jury the reason mark weinberger r...

Narrator: it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy, she had a sore throat. but perhaps the most troubling symptom for phyllis, a lifelong smoker, was that she had recently begun coughing up blood. i believe that when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i dont think she tried to hide that from anybody. how did she find out about mark weinberger? i believe one of her coworkers may have seen billboards. the "nose doctor." mm-hmm. narrator: in hindsight, going...

After that deposition was played for the court, weinbergers attorney began his defense by admitting, mark weinberger is probably not a likable guy. but that, he told the jury, is beside the point. this case, he said, is about one thing and one thing only-- dr. weinbergers treatment of phyllis barnes. james hough was the attorney hired by weinbergers malpractice insurer to defend him. hough did not respond to our request for an interview. however, in court, he told the jury phyllis barnes had nee...

In court documents, allen alleges that weinberger misdiagnosed phyllis troubled breathing and gave her a sinus surgery she didnt need, while missing the advanced throat cancer that eventually killed her. he needs to understand that it wasnt just the insurance companies that were harmed, it was people. lives were destroyed. people were hurt. phyllis barnes it turns out was just the tip of the iceberg. once mark weinberger fled, malpractice complaints began flooding into lawyers like ken allen. am...

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Hes very optimistic, saying that theres possibilities for use in parkinsons, epilepsy, strokes, potentially even cancer. rob, paula? >> that is incredibly encouraging news there. are you kidding me? i think more people would probably be more apt to go to the doctor and get the treatment or surgery they need if it was, you know, less painful, less intrusive. >> they dont want to go under the knife. >> have you ever had a major surgery? >> sinus surgery. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> you mentioned th...

Billion. with the world as a dangerous place, were going to put the military on the chopping block. its like holding a gun to your own head. i cant imagine the circumstance that ever makes any sense at all. and then with that, as a possible outcome, you have a president who didnt get involved in the process. >> all right. were slipping into politics here. newt gingrich also weighed in. were going to get to that in a moment. lets first talk about what happened here. i also have parts of joes piec...