​Prosecutors of today's ugly mug poser, Narcisco Romanes Blando, put it best: "There was no medical reason or necessity for the defendant to touch the victim's vagina." Not unless the physician's assistant at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Mission Viejo was practicing an alternative medicine that has a practitioner, say, massaging the arch of your foot to cure a brain tumor. In this case, the alleged criminal act involved first rubbing lotion on a 54-year-old woman's aching ankle before moving on up under her gown to her private parts. Clinics in Berkeley don't offer treatment like that.
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​This is Navel Gazing but we also stare at heads, particularly the ones enveloping the brains of NFL players examined by Dr. Daniel G. Amen, the Newport Beach psychiatrist and brain-imaging researcher who strongly advocates better rules and helmets to protect noggins.

But Amen's latest research also looks at the brutes' waistlines, which reveals something the good doctor calls "The Dinosaur Syndrome." As in, "Big body. Little brain. Become extinct."
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Paula Rojeski

​Credibility has been rapidly shrinking for the executives behind the 1-800-GET-THIN campaign (you know the one), and now, a new lawsuit alleges that the business they're running is a "huge, lucrative and criminal enterprise." 

In the lawsuit, posted here by the Los Angeles Times, a former employee of surgery centers affiliated with the ad campaign claims that details have been covered up in case of Paula Rojeski, a 55-year-old Ladera Ranch woman who died following her Lap-Band surgery on Sept. 8, 2011.
 
Rojeski underwent the weight-loss procedure at Valley Surgical Center in West Hills. Dyanne Deuel, a former surgical tech supervisor, alleges that during Rojeski's surgery, the anesthesiologist made a number of mistakes--not turning on the valve to the oxygen tank at the right time, ignoring a blood pressure reading of 70, and modifying the IV in Rojeski's arm, causing it to come loose and drain its fluids onto the ground.
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​Early this year, I wrote about the travails of one Jerry Steven Garcia, an Anaheim-based obstetrician with a nasty habit of delivering dead babies. The story profiled a couple who allege Garcia was an asshole to them after delivering their dead son, and also documented a litany of medical malpractice suits, California Medical Board disciplinary actions, and many other scandals Garcia has left in his wake.

Another one was filed earlier this month.
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​Pro football players of the past like Conrad Dobler, Hacksaw Reynolds and Hollywood Henderson were known for being crazy on and off the field. Now, a Newport Beach brain doctor says football players suffer a high risk of going nuts after their playing days are over.
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Emeritus at Yorba Linda

​Newport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Newport Beach and Emeritus at Yorba Linda received Class "AA" citations, the most severe penalty under state law, for inadequate care that led to a death at each nursing home this year. After California Department of Public Health (CDPH) investigations into each facility, Newport Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was fined $100,000 and Emeritus at Yorba Linda received a $90,000 fine.
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Dr. Kamrava

​A judge in Los Angeles today rejected a bid by the fertility doctor of Octomom Nadya Suleman to get his medical license back.

Judge James C. Chalfant essentially denied Dr. Michael Kamrava's appeal to LA Superior Court of the California Medical Board's July decision to revoke his license to practice, partly due to his mistreatment of La Habra's Suleman.
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​Allied Management Group Special Investigation Unit (AMG-SIU) bills itself as "The Total Health Care Fraud, Waste and Abuse Solution." But the Santa Ana fraud finders find themselves at the center of a lawsuit that accuses AMG-SIU of being a "shell company" for corporate greed.
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​Dr. Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who had medical license suspended over his treatment of Octomom Nadya Suleman, La Habra's unemployed single mother of 14, and an older woman who was also a multiple birth mother, has gone to court in a bid to get his license back. Kamrava's attorney filed court documents indicating the suspension of his client's license was an overly harsh punishment fueled by "popular vilification" for having helped the despised Octomom conceive.
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​A Ladera Ranch doctor, who twice did a surgery unsuccessfully before referring a patient to a different doctor, got a one-year probation term from the state medical board.More >>