10 Doctors Who Lost License Due to Terrible Medicine Practice
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Chalhoub not only lost his license; he was ordered to pay $250,000 and sentenced to more than three years in prison. His crime of giving people an unnecessary pacemaker.
In some cases, he told patients they would die if they didn't get a pacemaker when their condition wasn't fatal.
10. Declaring a Baby Dead when They Weren’t
In 2013, a baby was born in a hospital in East China and was declared dead by a delivery doctor. Workers informed the hospital that the baby was still alive and was brought back for treatment.
Apparently, the child had a deformity of the respiratory system, and the hospital admitted to treating him for "humanitarian reasons". The doctor who declared him dead lost his license, and the story ended by explaining that the baby was in critical condition without further updates.