The proof that all doctors are human reptiles out to destroy your health keeps on coming. Doctor Faces Suits Over Cardiac Stents

The Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare, started investigating Dr. Midei in February after a series of articles in The Baltimore Sun said that Dr. Midei at St. Joseph Medical Center, in Towson, Md., had inserted stents in patients who did not need them, reaping high reimbursements from Medicare and private insurance.

The senators solicited 10,000 documents from Abbott and St. Joseph. Their report, provided in advance to The New York Times, concludes that Dr. Midei “may have implanted 585 stents which were medically unnecessary” from 2007 to 2009. Medicare paid $3.8 million of the $6.6 million charged for those procedures.

The report also describes the close relationship between Dr. Midei and Abbott Labs, which paid consulting fees to the cardiologist after he left the hospital. “The serious allegations lodged against Dr. Midei regarding the medically unnecessary implantation of cardiac stents did not appear to deter Abbott’s interest in assisting him,” the report states.

Interestingly, I did some consulting work for Abbott Labs about five years ago. It also turned out that the father of a childhood friend of mine developed a patent on a particular type of stent and sold it to Abbott. (I don’t think it’s the stent mentioned here; I don’t believe it’s been brought to market yet.)

I doubt the full scope of Dr. Midei’s evil has really been brought to light. I suspect his master plan was to install robotized, explosive stents in people’s chests. Then, years later, he could approach them and demand exorbitant payments and/or sexual favors to keep him from exploding the stents.