I think others, like me, would like to hear more about this lawsuit you keep mentioning. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you stated that it was a malpractice lawsuit and that there was another too?
Just curious since according to the New York state department of health, the CPH who is the OD who resides in Oak Beach has a perfect stellar career without a single malpractice case on record.
I'm not questioning whether or not the law suits existed. I'm more concerned that they might be for bodily injury that was caused outside of the normal parameters of the medical field. For instance, if the bodily injury was sustained by the other party while being treated at some sort of unlicensed makeshift rehab facility run by the doc out of his home, such a lawsuit could likely bypass the standard reporting procedures for malpractice cases since the the injury was allegedly not caused by a traditional medical procedure.
I have attached the 2 short order forms summarizing both cases to posts in the past, they should be easy enough to search for, if you cant find them, pm me your address and i will send them to you.
Since, I am not an attorney, I couldn't be certain of my interpretation of the documents. So, I sat down and read them over with my father who is currently a criminal defense attorney and a former Suffolk county DA homicide prosecutor (we have a deal of fun discussing this case). He told me that, it looks like CPH settled, so I don't believe there ever would have been anything on his DO record. Though, even if you don't settle and are found guilty, I believe the "record" only shows malpractice cases that occurred in last 7 or 10 years. The events he stood trial for occurred in 89 and 90-ish) and the trial was in 1999 and 2000 (good job CPH attorney). So his "record" would be clean now regardless. The expert witness physician in the case stated that CPH acts amounted to gross negligence.
The 2 events happened during his residency at Long Beach Hospital, when he was away from the hospital and on site as a physician/EMT. When you are in the field, and away from an actual hospital or emergency room, you are protected by the "good samaritan law" which makes it
difficult for anyone to file malpractice suits against you, he still racked up 2. The law was specifically designed to protect doctors when you are 'away from a hospital' and trying to save someones life.
Regardless of conviction, the BIG takeaway from the 2 cases is this:
We now know he had a substance abuse problem himself that caused him to need rehab treatments for 3 years 88, 89, 90.
We know he settled the suit and paid up.
We know he declared bankruptcy.
We know that his actions were severe because the good samaritan law
couldn't even protect him.
We know that he misrepresented himself in court as an MD in the first trial, then properly identified himself as a DO in the second.
We know he lost the job at Long Beach hospital.
In case you don't know, almost any action that occurs between doctor and patient falls under "malpractice", including: molestation, rape, intentional physical abuse, or simply doing nothing to help someone and watching them slowly suffer or die.
Simply put, being found to have acted "grossly negligent" even when you are protected by the good Samaritan law is not common, it means the doctor did something very wrong. For this to happen to the same doctor twice, and both times against juveniles, means it was no accident.
I found the short order forms describing the cases shortly after CPH was in the news in April. We all know serial killers don't just wake up and murder people out of the blue, they have a track record, they do harmful things to people or animals and progress up to murder. I felt in April as I feel now, that these 2 incidents are important pieces of CPH's track record.
