An Iowa hospital did not defame a surgeon when it reported concerns about his prescriptions for addictive painkillers, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Dr. Mark Andrew was fired in 2016 from the Van Diest Medical Center in Webster City, according to the Supreme Court ruling. Before he was fired, the hospital s chief executive officer had raised several concerns, including about his productivity and about his treatment of a surgical patient.
Hospital officials began looking into Andrew s treatment of the patient after a local pharmacy alerted them to issues with the man s prescriptions for addictive painkillers, the ruling says. Over four years, Andrew had prescribed nearly 12,000 Vicodin pills to the patient, who underwent testicular removal surgery, the ruling says.
Des Moines Register
Cameron Lard is still wondering why he was criminally charged, then told his case would be dismissed, then charged again in the wake of last year’s George Floyd protests in Des Moines.
Lard, a former Iowa State University basketball player, says he wasn t part of the protests, didn t disobey any police instructions and was actually on his front doorstep, pulling out his keys to go inside, when he and a friend were swarmed by police early on May 31.
He was charged with unlawful assembly and failure to disperse. Court documents allege he was a member of a group (of WELL over three people) who assembled to protest that day, and that he willfully stayed among the group as the protest turned toward property damage and despite police orders to disperse.
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