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Doctors Wage War Against Trend Of Patients Posting Inaccurate, Negative Reviews Online
Retired Air Force Colonel聽David Antoon agreed to pay $100 to settle what were felony charges for emailing his former Cleveland Clinic surgeon articles the doctor聽found threatening and posting聽a list on Yelp of all the surgeries the urologist had scheduled at the same time as the one that left Antoon聽incontinent and impotent a decade ago. He faced聽up to a year in prison. Antoon's 10-year crusade against聽the Cleveland Clinic and his urologist is unusual for its length and intensity, as is聽the extent聽to which Cleveland Clinic urologist聽Jihad Kaouk was able to convince police and prosecutors聽to advocate聽on his behalf. (O'Donnell and Alltucker, 7/18)