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Two weeks after abrupt resignation, St. Joseph Medical Center replaces CEO - Crisis CEO Jeffrey Norman resigns without explanation from St. Joseph Medical Center.
- A federal jury convicted John R. McLean, a retired Eastern Shore cardiologist, of health care fraud and related charges for placing unnecessary coronary stents in the arteries of dozens of patients and billing private and public insurers millions of dollars for the superfluous procedures.
- Mark Midei's use of unnecessary stent operations raises the question of whether his patients were aware of their right to give informed consent to the procedure
- The Maryland Board of Physicians revoked the medical license of Towson cardiologist Dr. Mark G. Midei on Wednesday after finding that he falsified patient records and "implanted cardiac stents unnecessarily" in four out of five cases reviewed
- Emergency procedures deemed mostly appropriate, but 'elective' cases questioned
- Recommendations calling for mandatory accreditation of cardiac cath labs and peer review have been bottled up in Maryland's Health Services Cost Review Commission.
- Mark Midei makes case to physicians' board that he practiced appropriately
- Dr. Mark Midei writes a response to the charges that he placed unnecessary stents and profited from medical device manufacturers.
- A $60 million fraud lawsuit filed by Dr. Mark Midei against St. Joseph Medical Center was transferred to the county Monday by a city judge who also threw Midei's attorney out of the courtroom.