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apROME – The signs seemed to point to a man preparing to escape.
Mark Weinberger had purchased diamonds, withdrawn a large sum of money from his business and packed up survival gear that he kept at his Indiana surgery clinic before disappearing more than five years ago amid mounting charges of fraud and malpractice.
Now Weinberger, 46, is in custody in an Italian hospital. The Merrillville, Ind., doctor was arrested as he hid on a snowy mountain in northern Italy and stabbed himself in the neck as he was taken into custody, police said Thursday.
Weinberger's patients in the United States, who have been waiting for years to tell a court they believe the doctor misdiagnosed them, botched surgeries or hastily performed the wrong procedures, hoped his capture will mean their lawsuits can finally go forward.
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end of the line, nose doctor.