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Anthony Olson was told that he’d die without the treatment and to ignore a negative biopsy. He’s one of many patients who may have received harmful or unnecessary treatments from Montana oncologist Dr. Thomas C. Weiner, according to court records.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 83 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

What.

The.

Fuck.

Also, 2 million for a center director at a small provider? Thats in line with like the CEO of Fred Hutch, Dana-Farber, and other cancer centers I’ve actually heard of.

Edit: I went through US News’ top 50 cancer centers and looked for CEOs of places designated only as cancer centers (versus just a hospital). That’s above some of the salaries for CEOs of top ranked cancer centers, although below many at the truly elite centers make.

Edit 2: even better, the Association of American Cancer Institutes reported the average Cancer center CEO salary was $809k (mean, median was $784k), with the 75th percentile making $935k in 2023 (note this guy was fired in 2020)

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This narcissist lived for being in that hospital. He was making so much because he was seeing SEVENTY patients a day. Not because he was salaried as a ceo.

So even if he pocketed $100 a patient average, 286 days at work a year would earn him $2,000,000.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, although 70 seems super unlikely. Do you have a source on that?

Bonuses for RVUs at seeing 70 patients a day would be pretty insane though

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The article states he was seeing 70 patients a day. So my source is your posting.

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago
  1. Not my article.
  2. It mentions he had up to 70 patient contacts per day. I don’t see anything about him having a 70 pt schedule
[–] thoonder_coont@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago

This piece of shit still has a medical license and aggressively sues anyone who says anything mean about him

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 30 points 6 days ago

Get a second opinion on serious shit. Even if it means driving to somewhere that's not Helena, MT.

[–] filt@infosec.pub 18 points 6 days ago

I. C. Wiener? ... Aw crud.

[–] TuEstUnePommeDeTerre@midwest.social 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well I guess SCP-7303 is a real thing.

People who commit medical treatment fraud are among the lowest of the low.

and this highlights a problem with insurance. likely there are other people with cancer but they don't have good enough insurance so better to treat someone who doesn't but does have good insurance.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think he did it purposefully. He sounds like an extreme narcissist and couldn't comprehend being incorrect about an initial diagnosis.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

His diagnosis was never based on evidence. There was no biopsy at all.

You're right that he didn't wake up and decide to misdiagnose people as having cancer just to be evil and ruin his life, he decided it because if he did, he could earn extreme amounts of money. The actual medical practice was irrelevant to him.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

The article clearly states it was based off of a biopsy. There was a 2nd biopsy done several months later that shown negative and the doc said it was because the treatment was working. The article further states that "come to find out" the biopsy test for that disease has a high false positive rate.

Did you only skim the article, or not read it at all?

[–] Carrolade@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I see a lot of parallels between this man and Trump, even up to the nature and level of support they got.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If his middle initial wasn't "C", do you think that would have been included?

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 6 days ago

DR.WEINER FUCKED ME!

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I read another article about this guy. Seems like a huge POS

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

After reading the entire article, it really just sounds like this guy saw himself as some sort of never wrong Dr.House type of jackass who thought the world should bow down at his feet. An egotistical narcissist.

I don't think he screwed up people's lives on purpose. He just had his head shoved too far up his own ass to notice.