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Monday, January 16, 2012

Surgeons Defamed by Disgruntled Patient Win $12 Million Verdict

Patient to pay damages for disparaging doctors online and in public meetings.


A cosmetic surgery patient has been ordered by an Arizona court to pay $12 million for defaming 2 local surgeons in public meetings and in online forums, including her own website, according to court records. Those complaints, according to the surgeons' attorney, included accusations that the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based doctors were responsible for her serious skin infection, had altered her medical notes and weren't board certified physicians.

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