Sentences with phrase «who referred his patients»

Silver took taxpayer monies and with the power he had as speaker, directed it to a specific doctor who referred patients back to Silver and his firm.

Prosecutors said Silver directed money from another such pot, the HCRA fund, to support the work of a medical researcher who referred patients with a rare lung disease to the law firm where Silver was of counsel.

The scheme provided SILVER with two different streams of unlawful income: (i) approximately $ 700,000 in kickbacks SILVER received by steering two real estate developers with business before the state legislature to a law firm with which he was associated, and (ii) more than $ 3 million in asbestos client referral fees SILVER received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg.

Authorities said more than $ 3 million of that was obtained in «asbestos client referral fees Silver received by, among other official acts, awarding $ 500,000 in state grants to a university research center of a physician who referred patients made ill by asbestos to Silver at Weitz & Luxenberg.»

Many insurers require that patients try medically supervised weight - loss programs, often for a year or more before they will cover the operation, and plans may set other conditions such as screening tests, psychological examinations and other documentation by the doctor who refers the patient for the operation.

February 17, 2000 Doctors overestimate survival times Doctors who refer patients to hospice care are systematically overoptimistic.

The entire team of doctors, technicians and support staff at the Veterinary Specialty Center of Tucson are dedicated to providing exemplary service to you — our client and to your pet — our patient, as well as to the primary care veterinarians who refer their patients to us.

MASH is committed to every animal and every owner that seeks treatment, as well as every local veterinarian who refers patients to us.

We're committed to every animal and owner that seeks treatment, as well as every local veterinarian who refers patients to us.

Not exact matches

I refer to Desire who was very patient and explicit in solving my doubts and queries very clearly.

(The doctor referred the patient to his partner, who agreed to do the treatment.)

Primary care practitioners (who may be physicians, nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physicians» assistants, or dentists) screen for disease, counsel patients about their health - related behaviors, treat illness, refer for specialty care, and manage an individual's or a family's total health care.

This left many families in a bind, as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts doesn't provide licensing to the allied healthcare professionals collectively referred to as «lactation consultants» and it was the families» «licensed providers» who were referring patients to the lactation consultants.

The findings suggest that structured interviews about difficulties at work could alert doctors to patients at risk of postpartum depression who might benefit from being referred to a psychiatrist for monitoring after they give birth.

Risk assessment is an important part of every midwife's practice, just like a family practice doc who does OB is always assessing if someone needs to go to OB or maternal - fetal medicine, every health provider continually assesses and refers their patients to the appropriate level of care.

Taub then referred cancer patients to Silver who passed along their potentially lucrative cases to Weitz and Luxenberg where Silver served as «Of Counsel.»

At his 2015 trial, evidence showed that Silver, 73, sponsored state grants to mesothelioma researcher Dr. Robert Taub, who helped generate fees for Silver by referring patients to his law firm, and backed legislation favored by developers who used a tax law firm affiliated with Silver.

The patients were referred to the firm by Silver, who served as «of counsel» to the firm but did little work there, prosecutors said.

In November 2015, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted of 7 felony counts of federal corruption charges in a kick - back scheme where he gave $ 500,000 in state lump sum tax dollars to a physician who would refer patients to the Speaker's law firm where he would get referral fees.

Molo went on to highlight the numerous other firms to which Taub referred patients, as well as the other attorneys at Weitz who he had worked with because «they're a very good firm.»

Silver was convicted of pocketing $ 4 million in kickbacks in a pair of schemes, including one in which he directed state grants to a Columbia University researcher who had been referring mesothelioma patients to him.

Ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has subpoenaed key documents from a doctor who allegedly took $ 500,000 worth of state cancer - research grants in exchange for referring patients to Silver's law firm, new...

Martins explained that this tactic centers around 81 - year - old Dr. Robert Taub, who told the jury he referred patients suffering from asbestos - related health problems to Silver's law firm in exchange for favors, including state - funded research grants.

Doctors who opt not to take the online certification course required to prescribe marijuana can refer patients to another physician who may be able to certify the patient if they have a serious health condition, like cancer, HIV / AIDS or forms of epilepsy.

During testimony, he explained how he and Silver came to work out an arrangement whereby Taub referred patients with cancer to Sheldon Silver who, in addition to serving as Assembly speaker, also worked as «Of Counsel» at a private law firm.

Silver was indicted for tapping a secret health - related fund to steer $ 500,000 to a cancer doctor, who then referred patients to Silver's law firm.

SILVER also entered into a corrupt arrangement with Dr. Robert Taub, who was a leading physician specializing in the treatment of asbestos - related diseases, through which SILVER issued state grants and otherwise used his official position to provide favors to Dr. Taub so that Dr. Taub would refer and continue to refer his patients to SILVER at Weitz & Luxenberg, a firm with which SILVER was affiliated as counsel.

Silver's attorneys, for instance, argued there was nothing wrong with the speaker steering state grants toward potentially life - saving mesothelioma research — or Silver then referring patients who had been exposed to asbestos to the personal injury law firm where he was «of counsel» — an arrangement that brought the patients «economic justice» (along with millions in referral fees for Silver).

No donation from the firm was forthcoming, according to former director Dr. Robert Taub, but state financing was — and the cancer researcher testified that he referred patients to Weitz & Luxenberg while getting the money, a favor he otherwise reserved for attorneys who had contributed directly.

Through a friend, Taub, who also holds a PhD from London University, met Silver, who demanded the doctor refer his patients to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specialized in tort cases involving asbestos - related diseases, according to prosecutors.

Silver, by contrast, plainly did abuse his office: most notably, to funnel $ 500,000 in state funds to a doctor who then referred patients to Silver's law firm, for which the firm paid the speaker millions.

In one scheme, prosecutors said he sent $ 500,000 in state grant money to Dr. Robert Taub, a Columbia University researcher who in turn referred some of his patients to a law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver was of counsel.

In one scheme, prosecutors charged, he had performed favors for a doctor who in return referred patients to Silver's law firm; as a result, Silver netted roughly $ 3 million in referral fees.

For several jurors among the group of eight woman and four men, Mr. Silver's relationship with Dr. Taub, who referred mesothelioma patients with potentially profitable legal claims to a law firm that then paid Mr. Silver, seemed to come down to this: one man helping another out, just because he could.

The doctor directed his mesothelioma patients to Silver, who then referred them to a law firm that paid Silver nearly $ 3 million in referral fees, prosecutors allege.

In medicine, however, the words trauma patient usually refer to someone who has suffered serious and life - threatening physical injury potentially resulting in secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death.

The researchers recruited 61 patients who were either self - or physician - referred to the Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center at Johns Hopkins and who met the study criteria.

«As a clinical psychologist,» he says, «I used to refer patients to colleagues who were psychiatrists to get these medications.»

«We did not see the same pattern of prescribing from psychiatrists or general practitioners,» said Lacasse, who suggests that OB / GYNs should refer their patients to mental health practitioners in such tragic and highly emotional situations.

The study, published online in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, used the LipidSeq method on 313 patients with LDL cholesterol levels above 5.0 mmol / L who had been referred to the lipid clinic at LHSC.

«Given the high prevalence of treatable sleep problems in MS patients, and the fact that many patients with MS rate fatigue as one of their most bothersome symptoms, physicians should have a low threshold to refer MS patients who report sleep disturbances to sleep specialists,» says last author Ronald Chervin, M.D., M.S., professor of neurology and director of U-M Sleep Disorders Center.

This is in large part due to the peculiarly British convention which ensures that a specialist will only deal with patients who have been referred for treatment and advice by their own family doctor.

Instead of having to attract their own patients they were able to sit back and await the arrival of those referred by their former pupils, or by local doctors who knew of their fame.

Palliative care can either refer to a specific service that is provided by physicians and nurses who have received specialized training in this type of care, or an overall approach to care for patients with serious illness, which would include palliative care when provided by a specialist or by a non-palliative care specialist (like an oncologist or a primary care physician).

The findings apply only to patients with CFS who are diagnosed in UK secondary care and referred for therapy.

«We don't know how to incorporate it into patient care,» she complains, referring to women who test positive and their families.

The use of all antibiotics and steroids (which can be harmful to individuals who actually have TB), as well as the total number of medicines given, decreased sharply when the pharmacy staff decided to refer the patient to a doctor, which was far more commonly done when the patient presented with a lab test confirming TB, thus making the diagnosis apparent to the pharmacist.

During a six - month period in 2009, 161 patients who received a suspected brain injury while on duty in Iraq were referred to an outpatient TBI clinic at a combat support hospital there.

Patients chosen for the study were adults without coronary heart disease who were referred for cardiac stress tests.

Patients who are referred to Okyanos are rigorously screened to determine their candidacy for adult stem cell therapy.