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© WSBNicole, Somer and Jerry Carter
Nicole Carter said her daughter, Somer, was about 1 1/2 years old when Dr. Maheshvar Patel destroyed her baby teeth, requiring three root canals and caps on all of her teeth, and sent her from his office bruised and crying, reported WSB-TV.
"When I looked down, her mouth was just pouring blood," Carter said. "It was awful, and when I raised her lip up, everything was just hanging on top."
The family is among several that have filed a malpractice suit against Patel, whose attorney has denied the dentist caused any injuries or damages.
Agents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service and Rome police raided Patel's office in 2012 to investigate more than 50 complaints, and investigators hired a dental consultant to investigate the pile of medical records.
Police said they immediately reported the criminal investigation to the Georgia Board of Dentistry — but the board took no action until July 2015, when it released a public reprimand.
© iStockIn a recent study of German employees, narcissism was linked to higher salaries, while Machiavellianism was tied to leadership positions and career satisfaction.
In a recent study from the University of Bern in Switzerland, researchers found that German employees with high levels of narcissism were linked to higher salaries, while those displaying "Machiavellianism" (traits related to manipulation and superficial charm) were tied to leadership positions and career satisfaction.
Researchers Daniel Spurk, Anita C. Keller, and Andreas Hirschi analyzed the effects of "Dark Triad" traits (psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism) on outcomes like salary and leadership positions, and found a correlation between employees demonstrating those traits and career success, even when controlling for the effects of demographics, job tenure, organization size, and hours worked.
It's worth noting, as Harvard Business Review points out, that the Dark Triad personality traits aren't clinical diagnoses. They're more like personality traits and are "normally distributed in the population."
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This year, Los Angeles has seen 45 officer-involved shootings, compared to 23 through the same period last year. Of these, 19 shootings have been fatal, compared to 18 last year and 14 in 2013, according to Matthew Johnson, the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
Johnson called the increase an "alarming development," according to local media, as he unveiled a roadmap for improving the LAPD.
"I believe we can work toward vastly reducing the number of use-of- force incidents through extensive training and modifying our tactics," he said.
Comment: The LAPD has a long history of corruption. Johnson will have his hands full trying to bring about change.
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"I just felt like the gentlemen simply was on hard times. He wanted to ride on the bus but he couldn't afford shoes, there was no need for me to arrest him for that," Officer Kenya Joyner, of Wilmington, Delaware, later told KYW-TV.
This was shot on camera by Kayla Palmer of Pine Hill, New Jersey, who told NBC10 her father saw the homeless man being kicked off the bus.
"We saw the officer pull back up and we thought he was gonna tell him to leave," Palmer said. "Instead he came out with a box of shoes."
Comment: Nice to know some police really do care about people.
© Beck Diefenbach / Reuters
"If a surfer doesn't have their own Facebook account, Facebook from now on will have to explicitly solicit consent and provide the needed explanations," the Brussels court of first instance said.
Comment: Exactly how could a tracking cookie determine if someone is a legitimate visitor or possible attacker? Seems like a bizarre argument to make.
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Officers Derrick Stafford and Norris Greenhouse, Jr. are currently being held, each with a $1 million bail for the murder of Jeremy Mardis and the attempted murder of his father, Chris Few.
Few's attorney, Mark Jeansonne said Monday, that the body camera video shows the father of this 6-year-old autistic boy who was shot to death in his car, had his hands in the air and did not pose a threat.
After it was revealed that the officers had fabricated a story about Chris Few having an outstanding warrant and being armed, the family is left wondering why in the world he was stopped in the first place.
Couple their lies with the fact that Few's attorney said he had his hands up during the stop, and a dark and ominous scenario begins to unfold.
Until now, there was still no logical reason for the stop, leaving everyone wondering why these officers went after Few at all. However, all that changed when Few's fiancée came forward about her relationship to one of the murdering cops, Norris Greenhouse, Jr.
Kelci
The child's mother, who has been named as 26-year-old Katerra Lewis, has been charged with manslaughter after leaving her one-year-old daughter Kelci in the care of a group of children all younger than nine.
On 11 October, police said, Katerra Lewis and her friend left to go to a club at around 11.30pm. The women returned at around 2am, but did not check on Kelci until the following morning, according to Birmingham police spokesman Sean Edwards.
Comment: It's actually the mother who should be arrested. Who leaves an eight-year-old in charge of an infant in order to go to the club?
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On various occasions he has been accused of planting evidence, wrongfully killing civilians, producing false police reports and carrying out unlawful arrests. At one point, while he was employed by Detroit police, he had complaints against his name than any other officer in the department.
The suburb of Inkster is expected to pay huge sums as payout to his victims - but, things are not as straightforward. The budget is tight and every time a settlement is reached, the amount is passed on as tax to the residents.
Comment: Yikes! These are just the reported incidents, just imagine the stuff that didn't make it into the reports.
© Brendan Smialowski/AFPDoctors inspect a kidney after it was removed during a transplant in 2012.
Organ transplant data
The lead author of the study, Dr. Raymond Givens of New York's Columbia University, presented the results at an American Heart Association conference in Orlando, Florida on Monday. Dr. Givens found the wealthy can more easily get on multiple transplant waiting lists, making it less likely they'll die while waiting for a kidney, heart or other organ.
Organs are supposed to be given to the sickest patients who have waited the longest but many wealthy patients can afford to put themselves on two, three or more wait lists, travelling to other states and paying the fees for the tests needed at each one. Tests can cost from $23,000 for a kidney all the way up to $51,000 for a heart.
"Multiple-listed patients were more likely to get transplanted and less likely to die," Dr. Givens said. He adds that getting on more than one wait list is a "rational thing to do" for those who can afford it.
Some states, such as New York, have comparatively fewer organs available, while others, such as California, have more. Wealthy people from New York often travel to California and pay for tests and get on wait lists there.
Comment: The only way to explain this increasingly common and horrific treatment of children is that the practice of dentistry has been overrun by pathological predators, and like pedophiles are being protected by those tasked with their oversight.