Chesapeake Regional Medical Center faces serious charges for allowing a former doctor to perform unnecessary procedures on women for 35 years. Thomas Cage reports…
Script: Court documents show the medical center hired Dr. Javaid Perwaiz and allegedly allowed him to practice medicine from 1984 until he was arrested in 2019. Prosecutors say hospital officials knew he had been fired from another hospital for performing unnecessary surgeries, and in 1996, he was convicted of two federal felonies. The hospital received about $18.5 million dollars in reimbursements for procedures performed by Dr. Javaid Perwaiz from 2010 to 2019. The indictment claims that the hospital was complicit in a scheme to prioritize profits over patient care. Perwaiz was convicted of health care fraud and false statements in 2020 and sentenced to 59 years in prison.
Ed launched his radio career in 1975 and has spent more than five decades in the broadcasting industry. During that time, he has served in a wide range of roles including Air Personality, News Director, Sales Manager, Operations Manager, and General Manager at numerous radio stations in various markets across the country.
Beyond on-air and management responsibilities, Ed has also worked extensively on the technical side of broadcasting. His background includes RF engineering and information technology, with particular experience configuring digital automation systems and remote voice-tracking platforms used by stations across the country.
Ed was also among a select group of industry professionals invited by Google to its California headquarters following the company’s acquisition of Scott Studios. He was one of just 12 broadcasters nationwide chosen to participate in discussions and provide input during the design and rollout of Google’s digital broadcast automation platform.
Although the majority of Ed’s career—spanning roughly four decades—was rooted in music radio, he transitioned into news and information programming in 2012. He says the move into spoken-word broadcasting was a natural evolution after decades of experience in multiple areas of the industry.
