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Engineering Ethics
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Engineering Ethics

by Gail Baura
April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 20m
English
Academic Press
Content preview from Engineering Ethics
Options for Action When an Engineering Ethics Threshold Is Reached 33
Zerga filed a sealed civil complaint in Sacramento federal court alleging
fraud on the part of Tenet Heathcare Corporation, which owned RMC;
Dr. Moon; Dr. Fidel Realyvasquez, a cardiac surgeon at the hospital; and
Cardiology Associates of Northern California, a group that included Moon.
FBI investigation, which included interviews with hospital staff, revealed
that a substantial number of unnecessary surgeries had been charged to
Medicare; $54 million was recovered in the settlement with Tenet only, which
admitted no wrongdoing. Corapi and Zerga received 15% of the total recov-
ered, which amounted to $8.1 million.Tenet still faces more than 100 medical
malpractice suits on behalf ...
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