Forest Park Trial: Bariatric 'hernias,' yucky shakes and ‘a big bag of money’

On Tuesday, Dr. David Kim testified in U.S. District Court that from 2009 to 2012, he took millions of dollars in bribes from Forest Park Medical Center of Dallas, the now-shuttered hospital at the center of a sweeping medical fraud investigation. And, he said, so did Nick Nicholson, his close friend, a fellow bariatric surgeon, and one of nine defendants on trial in the Forest Park case. Kim recounted a conversation in which Nicholson told him, “We need to monetize our patients as much as we…
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