Is Your Doctor Fake? Medical Fraud

Is your doctor fake?

Clinton and John discuss the curious case of Atiq Durrani, the fake surgeon of
Cincinnati Children’s hospital and the dangers of fraudulent medical doctors.

Recap & Takeaways

There are fake doctors and surgeons in the United States
Fake MD’s can be found in hospitals and established institutions, including the government
Diploma mills have run rampant in the United States
We need a solution to identify and expose fraudsters like Atiq Durrani.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the Ohio Medical Board ignored the problem.

Reference Links:

Charles Mehlman Interview on the Bulldog Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmxhO3r8NZ4
17:45
“There was a clear effort to repress or prevent me from telling the truth”

18:24
What I experienced was a…series of serious efforts of what we would call systematic retaliation”.

23:45
“Patients and families don’t know how muzzled their doctor or their surgeon is when it comes to their ability to speak up about safety concerns”

Clinton and John discuss the curious case of Atiq Durrani, the fake surgeon of Cincinnati Children’s hospital and the dangers of fraudulent medical doctors.

Cincinnati Children’s INFO

Your MD may have a phony degree
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/your-md-may-have-a-phony-degree/

Michael Fisher CEO resignation 4/20/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpyIVU36VV0

New CEO is Steve Davis

5 to 11 Vaccine Clinic – COVID Vaccinations at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PG7DhECaBY

‘The hospital never told us:’ Cincinnati Children’s loses $2 million spine surgery lawsuit

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/12/24/cincinnati-childrens-loses-2-million-suit-fugitive-spine-surgeon-case/2394654002/

Max Londberg
Cincinnati Enquirer

‘The hospital never told us:’ Cincinnati Children’s loses $2 million spine surgery lawsuit

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center was ordered to pay $2 million for its role in an unnecessary surgery at its facilities performed by a now-fugitive surgeon, according to the plaintiff’s mother, Melissa Morgan of Middletown.

Dr. Abubaker Atiq Durrani was an area spine surgeon accused of lying about his medical schooling to get licensed in the state. Over a course of years, he performed unneeded and at times botched procedures. He was arrested in 2013 on federal criminal charges including fraud and fled the country later that year.

Two days before the ruling, more than 550 people together filed a federal lawsuit against the Ohio Medical Board alleging the oversight agency failed to properly vet Durrani and then ignored concerns raised by his colleagues.

The suit says Durrani claimed on his application for an Ohio medical license that he attended Bolan Medical College, which he didn’t. He also falsely claimed he graduated from Army Medical College in his native Pakistan, the suit claims.

Durrani was licensed by the board in 2004 and began working at Cincinnati Children’s in 2006. Durrani’s Center for Advanced Spine Technologies had offices in Evendale and Florence.

The suit also includes a 2009 letter from three area doctors raising “significant concerns” about Durrani’s surgical decisions.

The physicians wrote that Durrani was performing “unnecessary … and fraudulent surgeries,” the suit claims, but the board did not act on the letter.

“The physicians were in a state of disbelief that (the board) … did nothing to investigate or otherwise protect the public from Durrani,” the suit says.
The board did not immediately return a request for comment Saturday.

Casetext of case against Durrani
https://casetext.com/case/mehlman-v-cincinnati-childrens-hosp-med-ctr

OIG HHS
https://oig.hhs.gov/fraud/fugitives/abubakar-atiq-durrani/

Lawyers: Did indicted spine doctor ever attend medical school?
https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2015/01/20/lawyers-did-indicted-spine-doctor-ever-attend.html

Former patient of Dr. Durrani: “I want to bring this man to justice”
https://www.fox19.com/story/30771972/former-patient-of-dr-durrani-i-want-to-bring-this-man-to-justice/

SPINE FUGITIVE DURRANI FOUND IN PAKISTAN
https://ryortho.com/2015/06/spine-fugitive-durrani-found-in-pakistan/

About Cincinnati Children’s | Our Leadership
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/about/corporate/leaders

Richard M Ruddy MD (referenced in lawsuit)
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/r/richard-ruddy

Daniel von Allmen MD
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/v/daniel-vonallmen

Charles T. Melman MD –
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/bio/m/charles-mehlman

Dr. Eric Wahl warned Mehlman about reported the bad doctor

Corllins University
https://www.corllinsuniversity.org/images/brochure/brochure.pdf

https://www.worldtribune.com/leading-cardiologist-warns-16000-kids-injured-by-the-vaccine-emerging-public-health-threat/