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Ahmed Rashed California California,United States Charles Ornstein Cleveland Enmon dancer Doctors Behaving Badly exotic dancer head king Los Angeles Los Angeles Times Los Angeles,California,United States Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles New Jersey New Jersey,United States New York New York City,New York,United States officer police officer Stockton physician the Los Angeles Times Tracy Weber University of California University of California, Irvine University of Medicine University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey USD West Coast
October 14, 2009
Dr. Cleveland Enmon, the Stockton physician accused of stealing a retired police officer's watch as the officer was dying, may have learned by example. Enmon went through his residency at the most infamous hospital on the West Coast: Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. While there, he worked in the emergency room alongside Dr. Ahmed Rashed. Pocketing a patient's watch is bad. But Rashed took medical theft to a new level. In 2006, he was arrested for stealing an entire hand from a cadaver in New Jersey. Why would a medical student risk his career this way? Was he planning on selling it to researchers, as the former head of the Willed Body Program at the University of California, Irvine did in the 1990s? Was he No. Rashed stole the hand so he could give it to an exotic dancer. She kept the hand as a freak-show oddity for four years before the crime caught up with both of them. Rashed had graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and moved to Los Angeles for his residency at King/Drew. The dancer, presumably, was still dancing. He was charged with second-degree theft. She was charged with wrongful disposition of human remains. Charles Ornstein, who, along with Tracy Weber, won a Pulitzer for reporting on King/Drew in the Los Angeles Times, wrote: Judson Hamlin, an assistant Middlesex County prosecutor, said police discovered the hand in a glass jar when they went to the home of the exotic dancer as part of a separate investigation. Rashed and the dancer, Linda Kay, were reportedly acquaintances, the prosecutor said.Authorities believe that the hand belonged to a cadaver that was donated to Rashed's medical school for scientific use. Rashed was a first-year medical student at the time of the alleged crime, Hamlin said. Rashed ended up with a $5,000 fine, and the incident does not seem to have hurt his medical career. He was licensed to practice in New York in March 2008 and has continued to pursue emergency medicine — just like Enmon. LEAVE A COMMENTEditor Picks
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hsmartii -
A set up? How much television do you watch? You're clearly not paying attention to the off-the-chart volume of physician crime in this country. Letting the occasional Medical Miscreant report slip by, are you?
For the record, Cleveland Enmon, MD is about to join the 2,490 other physicians who were either convicted of serious crimes over the last year alone, or, at the very least, sanctioned by state medical boards. Ahmed Rashed beat him to the punch.
He is about to join the 237,000+ physicians listed in the National Practitioner Data Bank. Are there docs on that list who ought not be there? I have no doubt. But MDs who steal from their deceased patients - and that would include body parts - certainly belong on that list, as well as several others.
One of these days when you're real bored, do some Google searches on which of the 267 recognized professions, have committed the most crime over the last decade. You really do owe it to yourself to get informed.
The physician in the story you are commenting on, Rashed, is not black. His former medical residency colleague, Enmon, is black, but there is no way of knowing, nor reason for knowing, the racial background of everyone he worked alongside in Stockton. Also, physicians are not universally wealthy and able to buy themselves whatever they want. We'll have to see how the court decides what went on in that operating room.
This sounds like a bonafide set up. The artiicle failed to mention that this doctor was black and the ER staffmembers were white. I have been to Stockton, and I the blacks I ran into weren't the educated type. I can see that ER staff having an issue with this doctor. Finally, the doctors I know make enough money to buy their own rolex watch. So something is definitely fishy here.