The pathologist, Robert Morris Levy, was sentenced in January to 20 years in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter and mail fraud, after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
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A federal repository for adverse reports about medical practitioners has retracted a 2018 report filed against a former anesthesiologist by the Van Zandt VA Medical Center for issues that led to findings against the anesthesiologist by the VA Office of Inspector General.
The National Practitioner Data Bank withdrew Van Zandt’s adverse report about Michael Knitter, currently a board certified anesthesiologist in Chippewa Falls, Wisc., after Van Zandt conducted a second review of the matter and determined the issues involved didn’t rise to a level that justified forwarding them to the data bank.
The NPDB notified Knitter of its retraction of the report filed by the hospital in a “Void Report Confirmation,” with a “process date” of Sept. 17, 2018, stating “This … is to inform you that a report was removed from the National Practitioner Data Bank…for the following reason: The action was reversed because the original action should never have
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OIG Says Veterans Affairs Chief Botched Sex Assault Inquiry
Law360 (December 10, 2020, 11:04 PM EST) Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and other senior department officials bungled their response to a veteran s sex assault allegations last year by failing to take needed corrective action as well as disparaging the woman who made the claims and questioning her credibility, the VA s watchdog said in a scathing report released Thursday.
The veteran reported that she had been sexually assaulted by a contractor in the atrium of a Washington, D.C., VA medical center while waiting for an appointment in September 2019, according to the VA Office of Inspector General.