[Terr_]

There's so much here that it's hard to comment.

Ultimately it seems like a story of a doctor's cult of personality, greed and buying loyalty, reckless malpractice, and a failure of multiple institutions to detect it or care about stopping it.

[vharuck]

The armchair psychologist in me says Dr. Weiner is a sociopath who sees himself as a superhero doctor: controlling patients the entire way through the system, dismissing other physicians as incompetent or antagonistic, and diagnosing symptoms with diseases he happens to specialize in after quick tests or examinations. He even lied about how a family called his personal cell phone and begged him to cut his vacation short.

He wants money, but less out of greed and more because superhero doctors naturally earn a lot of money. There are plenty of easier ways to cheat money out of the system than maintaining that a man has stage 4 lung cancer for 11 years.