The news today? Rheumatologist jailed for fake diagnoses, Healthscope in receivership and the endocrinologist who saved a million brains

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Welcome to your bite-sized wrap-up. Below, we provide news summaries of what is going on in medicine, with links to the articles, opinions, studies and posts.

Doctor treated hundreds of patients with fake arthritis diagnoses

A US rheumatologist who earned $182 million through false rheumatoid arthritis diagnoses has been ordered to surrender 13 properties, a jet and a Maserati GranTurismo.

Dr Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 68, has also been imprisoned for 10 years for the fraud, which involved treating hundreds of patients with “toxic medications” for a condition they did not have.