Attorney general says banned doctor is still running Englewood abortion clinic

[TexasTowelie]

An abortion doctor who lost his license in New Jersey and has been banned from practicing in other states is illegally exerting control over women’s clinics in Englewood and several other locations, the state attorney general has charged.

Additionally, the facility known as Englewood Women’s Services — one of 14 in a chain of clinics that extends to Maryland and Virginia — filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors this week after a federal judge in Maryland three weeks ago awarded $6.5 million to a former patient in a malpractice case.

Dr. Steven C. Brigham, who lost his New Jersey license in November 2014 after illegally performing abortions in Maryland, has been plagued by controversy throughout a career in which he estimated he performed 40,000 abortions — including late-term procedures — even though he never completed a residency in obstetrics or gynecology.

The website for the chain known as American Women’s Services promises low fees, immediate appointments and “private expert care with over 35 years experience.”

Read more: http://www.northjersey.com/news/attorney-general-says-banned-doctor-is-still-running-englewood-abortion-clinic-1.1649719

[Princess Turandot]

1. This guy should be in jail, IMO...

The State of New York's Office of Professional Misconduct yanked his license way back in 1994, which was only about five years after he would have completed his residency.

He had been determined guilty of two acts judged as 'gross negligence'; you can read about them here in the gory details if you want. They were both late second term abortions and high risk situations, ones which the board determined should have been done in a hospital, not an outpatient clinic.

In one of the cases, after he managed to lacerate the patient's uterus, he kept trying to remove the fetal remains, despite the fact that she had begun to bleed heavily. He wound up piercing the wall between the repro organs and the abdominal organs, damaging her intestines with his forceps to the point that she needed a colostomy. (It sounded like he had gotten a hold of them with the forceps and was trying to pull them out.)

The second woman required an emergency hysterectomy to stop the life threatening bleeding caused by cuts to her uterine artery, and cervix. It took him three hours to decide to call an ambulance to take her to a hospital.

At his hearing, he claimed to have all kinds of training, which ultimately, he had to admit wasn't exactly true.

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