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Merrillville, Indiana malpractice doctor featured on America’s Most Wanted

The Northwest Indiana Times reports that the popular true crime show America's Most Wanted began their new season with a two-part investigation of Dr. Mark Weinberger, a Merrillville, Indiana physician who has been accused of medical malpractice by literally hundreds of patients.

The story starts as a fairytale - Weinberger goes to the best schools, becomes a plastic surgeon who specializes in nose and face surgeries, and meets Michelle Kramer, who he sweeps off of her feet. The couple married and moved to Merrillville, IN, in 2000 where the doctor opened the "Weinberger Sinus Clinic" and the "Merrillville Center for Advanced Surgery" and began making over $3 million a year.

As the couple became richer, Weinberger began to act strangely and spending money on extravagant things - a limo picked him up for work every morning and he required a blackberry in every room. This would have been considered just a little strange, except that the problems ran deeper - Weinberger's hundreds of patients were routinely getting misdiagnosed, having unneeded surgeries, and even dying under his knife. The first malpractice suit landed in 2004, when a woman patient of Weinberger was misdiagnosed when she actually had throat cancer.

When the problems started mounting, and after a stress-induced miscarriage, the couple traveled to Greece. There, without warning, Michelle's husband disappeared - and he took almost everything.

"The public knows about the patients and lawsuits and the allegations," said Angeline Hartmann, a correspondent for America's Most Wanted. "We are trying to take a different approach to the show. We do it from the perspective of (Michelle Kramer) and everything she went through. He left behind a woman who thought he was Prince Charming. Women never think their Prince Charming will change into some guy who is going to be on America's Most Wanted."

The narcissistic playboy medical malpractice doctor is now the center of an international manhunt and an FBI investigation. The America's Most Wanted season opener aired on Saturday.

"We think putting all this effort into it will help bring him in," Hartmann said. "We reach 8 to 12 million viewers, and we have about 1,030 fugitive captures in our 22 seasons. We'd like to make him one of the 1,031."

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