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    Dr Daniel Serrano - Los Angeles - 2008

    LOS ANGELES (28 March 2008)An Argentine doctor who served prison time for giving illegal anti-wrinkle injections to wealthy and celebrity clients has been arrested and could face deportation, immigration officials said Thursday. Daniel Tomas Fuente Serrano, who was jailed after pleading guilty in 2006 to conspiracy, smuggling and use of unapproved drugs, could forfeit his permanent residency in the United States because of the crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said. "If you're here as a guest of this country, and you're convicted of certain types of crime, you may lose that privilege," she said. Serrano finished his...

    Dr Daniel Serrano - Los Angeles 2008

    Los Angeles (28 March 2008): An Argentine doctor who served prison time for giving illegal anti-wrinkle injections to wealthy and celebrity clients has been arrested and could face deportation, immigration officials said Thursday. Daniel Tomas Fuente Serrano, who was jailed after pleading guilty in 2006 to conspiracy, smuggling and use of unapproved drugs, could forfeit his permanent residency in the United States because of the crimes, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said. "If you're here as a guest of this country, and you're convicted of certain types of crime, you may lose that privilege," she said. Serrano finished...

    Dr Neil Hughes - UK September 2005

    A GP branded a "sexual octopus" by a female patient has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. Dr Neil Hughes sent "indecent and inappropriate" text messages to the patient, Miss A, the General Medical Council (GMC) concluded. Miss A, 33, from Liverpool, first went to see Dr Hughes at a diet clinic in Burnley in January 1998. The GMC rejected Miss A's sexual claims and said Dr Hughes, of Bramhall, Stockport, would not be struck off. It accepted the relationship he had with his patient was not "of a sexual nature". The GMC gave the married GP a reprimand...

    Dr Andrew Holton - UK - 23 June 2005

    A DOCTOR who turned hundreds of young patients into drugged ' zombies' could be struck off after 100 new alleged victims came forward. The children's families queued outside the offices of the General Medical Council yesterday to hand in letters of complaint against Dr Andrew Holton. They want him to be charged with misconduct and struck off the medical register so he can never practise on children again. Dr Holton, 52, wrongly prescribed huge doses of mindnumbing epilepsy drugs to about 700 children with symptoms including headaches, bad behaviour, clumsiness and falling behind at school. Most had lesser problems, or...

    Sir Roy Meadow - UK - 16 July 2005

    PROFESSOR Sir Roy Meadow, whose evidence led to three mothers being wrongly convicted of murdering their babies, was struck off the medical register yesterday. The 72-year- old doctor was found guilty of serious professional misconduct after he was found to have given 'erroneous' and 'misleading' evidence in court which led to long jail terms for the women, Sally Clark, Angela Cannings and Donna Anthony. The decision by the General Medical Council destroys his reputation. He was knighted for his work as a paediatrician, and even after he was accused of making mistakes he was still in demand as a lecturer...

    Roland Istria - UK - 8 August 2005

    A FRENCH surgeon hired by a private hospital to treat Health Service patients botched nearly two-thirds of the operations, according to a leaked Government report. Roland Istria, 59, was brought in by the Nuffield Hospital in Cambridge to perform joint replacement operations. But he was so unfamiliar with the procedures that he was spotted reading a textbook while operating on at least one occasion. Several of his victims have needed corrective surgery to their artificial joints and one has been left barely able to walk. The case will reignite controversy over the quality of foreign doctors used by the private...

    Dr Kazi Huq - UK - 23 August 2005

    A WOMAN died from cancer four years after her GP failed to act on test results showing she had the disease. Xenoulla Poxilaris should have been referred for surgery in 2001 after a biopsy revealed a mole removed from her back had been malignant. But GP Dr Kazi Huq failed to pass the results to Mrs Poxilaris or refer her back to hospital despite her family repeatedly calling to ask about the situation. She was eventually diagnosed with cancer two years later. But by then the disease had spread and she died aged 53 in May this year. Now her...

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