Hi, everybody, it's Cheryl Ackison.

Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, an alarming and egregious case of a doctor putting profits over patients in Virginia

where an OBGYN charmed his way into family's lives, but performed needless surgeries

that scarred women forever, often at taxpayer expense.

This week on Sunday, December 21st, on full measure, the almost unbelievable story of Dr.

Havad Pruways.

Maureen Dixon is a special agent with the Health and Human Services Inspector General's office. She helped lead the investigation that put Dr. Perweis

in prison. We hear her run down this amazing case in today's podcast.

This is a story about greed.

Dr. Pruyze was a respected,

a long-time OBGYN in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area.

He came into the area in about the 1980s,

and he served generations of patients. So he had

really built family trust. He delivered babies, grandparents sent their daughters to him.

He really was kind of an institution in that area. And unfortunately, what he did was take

advantage of that trust and violate his

sacred oath. And he essentially hurt people from money. He committed health care fraud,

but more and worse than that is he actually was hurting his patients. It's one of the worst

abuse cases. Patient abuse cases I've seen. I have almost 23 years in federal law enforcement.

And, you know, this was a, this was an excellent, you know, case to do to help people out.

To start, before we dig into again some more specifics, can you give an example? You don't

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