Question & Answer: Can you find an example, in health care, where an individual was prosecuted for…..

Covering up mistakes and changing the medical records are perceived as negligence and medical malpractice from the side of the physicians or the health care unite. These exist lawsuits where doctors and nurses have been accused and penalized for covering up facts or mistakes done during the treatment.

For example, In the month of July 2016, a whistleblower lawsuit was filed by a physician from the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City alleging that the chair of the hospital’s pathology department misdiagnosed a patient with cancer and subsequently covered up the mistake for months after the patient had an essential organ surgically removed. The prosecution may be conducted using 42 U.S.C. §1035 which govern theFalse Statements relating to health care matters.