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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 don't 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. >> in hindsight, going to the self-proclaimed nose doctor may have been a mistake. but since phyllis had a long history of sinus problems, seeking out a sinus specialist fo...

>> by february 2010, arrangements for weinberger's extradition had been completed and he was back in the united states and facing a world of legal trouble. first, there was a 22-count criminal insurance fraud indictment charging him with billing surgeries he didn't do and overbilling for those he did do. then hundreds of former patients were suing him for malpractice. >> what he has done to my daughter is horrific. >> remember valerie thomas' daughter kayla? she's the adorable 8-year-old who got sinus surgery from mark weinberger back in 2004 when her real problem was a brain tumor. she's 15 n...

>> it could have been a number of things. her voice was raspy and she had a sore throat. perhaps the most troubling thing for phyllis, a life-long smoker, she had recently began coughing up blood. >> i believe when she went to dr. weinberger she told him she was a smoker. i don't think she tried to hide that from anybody. >> how did she find out about mark weinberger? >> i believe one of her co-workers might have seen billboards. the nose doctor. >> in hindsight going to the self-proclaimed nose doctor may have been a mistake. since she had a long history of sinus problems, it seemed logical. ...

It but some of it. i would have to have surgery and afterward be taken care of, i understand. >> there was a problem. valerie says the university doctors said the scar tissue from the sinus surgery prevented them from removing 5% of the tumor. >> they all said why. each one said a 9-year-old doesn't have polyps that need to be removed. >> in time, more than 350 of mark's former patients would join in lawsuits against him while he was lounge ing the cafes and casinos in europe. almost all accused him of this same thing, misdiagnosing real problems and performing unnecessary surgeries. >> mark w...

>> as if calling his next witness from the grave, ken allen played a recording of phyllis barnes on a large tv monitor. >> he told me that he only took whatever the insurance was willing to pay, and i felt like that was -- everything seemed to this was all good, that it was just sinuses and no problem. so he did order a cat scan of the sinuses and scheduled surgery. >> this, ken allen told the jury, is the cat scan dr. weinberger did of phyllis barnes' sinuses. according to experts who testified at trial, the scan showed phyllis' sinuses were actually clear. >> weinberger -- and i hesitate to ...