Dr. Dennis G. Hooper

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I learned that Dr. Hooper may have been involved in testing my child post mortem. I asked him why he did this. He said he would get back to me. He never did. I also paid to have Real Time file with my insurance. I paid an extra 60 dollars or so on top of the 1,400. I only tested my boys because insurance covered the test. I am now out nearly 1,500, and I still am waiting to figure out why Real Time has a form from the day after my son's death! Its disturbing.

Submitted Feb. 27, 2019

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RealTime Labs, Dr. Dennis Hooper, I bought his mycotoxin test from Real Times Labs and the results were pretty fishy! So I did more research and found out his BADS lab work has been the direct cause of people deaths. I googled "Dr. Dennis Hooper Medical Crimes" and found out the information below STAY AWAY!
Find the whole articles at Google search "Real Times Labs Health Crimes" and read the RipOff Report at the top. It made me sick!
They'd seen enough. They were convinced that their newest colleague, Dr. Dennis G. Hooper, was making dangerous mistakes. And on this August afternoon in 2000, they were prepared to turn him in.
Dr. Brian Yee had caught the first hint of trouble in April. Rechecking a 27-year-old man's blood work, he noticed that Hooper, a pathologist with 16 years' experience, had missed signs of leukemia.
Over the summer of 2000, the pathologists believed, Hooper had misdiagnosed at least four other patients.
One was Virginia Jackson, 75, known as "Mama Jackson" to her adoring 117th Street neighbors. In early July, Hooper had said she was cancer-free — having failed to spot the malignant cells in her urine. Six weeks later, another pathologist, Dr. Theresa Loya, found invasive bladder cancer in a subsequent biopsy. The cancer would eventually kill Jackson, a mother of 16 and grandmother of 39.
About the same time, Dr. Hezla Mohamed was asked to recheck another of Hooper's cases. Hooper had seen "no area of malignancy" in the swollen neck tissue of a 59-year-old man, medical records show. Mohamed suspected that it was thyroid cancer — a finding that an outside lab would later confirm.

Hooper continued working, whipping slides through his microscope with a speed some colleagues considered irresponsible. The tall, paunchy pathologist, once eager for their friendship, kept more to himself now, listening to the music of Yanni on his headphones and saving his charm for their boss, Dr. Irene Gleason-Jordan.
Even when confronted with mistakes, some co-workers recall, Hooper seemed indifferent to the life-or-death importance of his job. Though pathologists rarely see patients in person, they issue crucial verdicts based on blood or tissue samples. Depending on a pathologist's report, patients can return home to a normal life, require surgery and other treatment, or face the reality that their lives are ending.
Six months after the pathologists sent their letter, Johnnie Mae Williams, then 40, went to the public hospital in Willowbrook, south of Watts, for a seemingly minor gynecological exam. Hooper determined that she had cancer of the uterine lining, and surgeons quickly gave her a radical hysterectomy, taking out all of her reproductive organs.
Hooper was wrong.
He had seen cancer — but it wasn't hers. His findings, it was later determined, were based on a slide from another patient, who had brain cancer. In his report, Hooper raised the possibility that the slide had somehow been mislabeled, but medical records show no evidence that he investigated where the slide came from.
When Mohamed examined Williams' excised organs 2 1/2 weeks after her surgery, she found no evidence of cancer, according to Williams' medical records.
A uterine-cancer expert said that what Hooper saw on the slides should have made him wary. The cancer that he diagnosed is uncommon in a woman of Williams' age, and one cell type necessary for Hooper's finding was absent, said Dr. Lora Hedrick Ellenson, a professor of pathology at Cornell University's medical school, who reviewed Williams' medical records for The Times.
"Everything about this case should have raised all kinds of red flags," Ellenson said.
Mohamed informed at least five other doctors at King/Drew, including several involved in Williams' care, that she did not have cancer, the records show.

Submitted Dec. 3, 2014

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