Doctor Jailed in Tainted IV Case Has Troubled History, Owed IRS $4 Million, Records Show |
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According to the board's complaint, in November 2020, Ortiz's patient required CPR and"emergent transport" during a procedure at the North Garland Surgery Center. In July 2016, the medical executive committee at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center-Garland suspended Ortiz for 14 days for not reporting the same conviction, the board noted.He graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in 1989 and performed his residency there, according to medical records.
She knew it was him, she testified, because he had a"very loud sports car" and"it's a very loud distinctive roar when he comes home." Ortiz stopped cooperating with police about a week later after he showed up for a scheduled meeting with a detective at the police station. But when the detective arrived in the lobby to greet him three or four minutes later, he was gone, according to the appeal court ruling.Ortiz's criminal record dates to 1995, just two years after he finished his residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
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