Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of murdering patient, newborns

[AOII Angel]

This case is disgusting. I'm pro-choice, but this procedure is not reasonable. Anyway, not all shady abortion practitioners are outed so publically. Two physicians lost their licenses in MD last quarter. I just got my MD Medical Board bulletin last weekend. It's the best little bit of schadenfreude that we experience as physicians. We all pour through it looking to see if we know someone who screwed up (hopefully not for patient care issues, but there are usually lots of drug or alcohol abuse problems or physicians dinged for dating their patients.) One abortion provider actually killed a patient by not monitoring her correctly after providing anesthesia. The other would initiate the procedure in MD or DE and have the patient finish the procedure across state lines. I'm not sure what the benefit was since the procedure is legal. Maybe he was billing in both states for the same procedure? They didn't specify the full extent of the problem, but it got his license pulled. He probably had his license revoked in Delaware as well, since states have reciprocal agreements to enforce each other's medical board decisions. Lots of other shady things were in this issue, but I won't go into them.