Area doctor setenced to 45 years in prison after putting patients

Unrelenting weakness in joints and muscles.

An emotional Fata admitted a “quest for power” that was “senseless and destructive” moments before being sentenced in a Medicare fraud case in which cancer patients received treatment that they either did not need or would not benefit from.

Some of Fata’s patients were allegedly exposed to powerful drugs over and over, despite having no cancer.

In Detroit, Michigan, a cancer doctor was sentenced to 45 years in prison. In calculating the sentencing guidelines, the judge pegged the loss to Medicare and other insurers at $17 million.

Before being sentenced, Fata turned to face those who were at his sentencing and apologized. “I do not know how to express the sorrow and the shame”. I have violated the medical oath and I have caused hardship and pain to my patients and their families.

“My quest for power is senseless and destructive, ” he said. When Karadsheh learned that a different oncologist in the practice was quitting, he said the doctor told him it was because Fata was administering chemotherapy to patients who didn’t need it. “I failed. Yes, I failed”.

The 50-year-old Fata pleaded guilty to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy.

As Geraldine Parkin, the wife of one former patient said in court, many were “tortured until their last breaths”.

Despite a sentence of 45 years, numerous patients were unhappy with the judge’s punishment, and broke down in tears upon hearing the verdict. To Fata, they said, “patients were not people. You poisoned, tortured and murdered my dad”. “I will never be the same”.

Flagg said Fata diagnosed her with myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow, in July 2012. This defendant ‎greedily cared more about his own financial well-being than the lives of his patients. “What really makes me mad is the fact that he lied”, Howard told CBS News.

“I abused the trust my patients placed in me”. “I do not know how I can heal the wound”.

Cadd said his father’s good insurance policy and lung cancer is what led to the over-treatment by Fata, who “just kept it up, kept it up until finally my father passed away because of that monster”, Cadd said, becoming tearful.

“I don’t think he’ll ever receive a license if he’s released”.

What’s the toll of excessive cancer treatments on the body? Her white blood cell counts were low, and Fata was a renowned hematologist and oncologist. “The others did so many that they’re practically dead anyway”.

“There is an aggressive approach to treating cancer”.

Family members of the victims who lost their lives after being treated by ex- cancer doctor Farid Fata spoke out on The Now Detroit.

“Chemo can be life-saving when used in the right setting by people with advanced cancers,”says Oh””. “There is no comparable case… and that is because of the harm.”.