Oesterling, former chief of urology at the University of Michigan Medical Center who ran a medical clinic in Caro, is accused of massively overprescribing pain-killing drugs.
Tuscola county circuit news for september 2017 trial#
Oesterling talks with his wife, Carmen, during a break in the doctor’s trial Thursday in Tuscola County Circuit Court. Prosecutors say Oesterling, owner of the Saginaw Township-based Midwest Prostate Urological Institute that also operated clinics including the one in Caro, massively overprescribed drugs including hydrocodone (commonly branded as Norco), oxycodone, methadone, amphetamines and alprazolam (commonly branded as Xanax). Tuesday before Tuscola County Circuit Judge Amy Grace Gierhart. Hintz will continue testifying when the trial continues at 8:30 a.m. If convicted of the charges, the Ann Arbor doctor could face a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. “I didn’t have to ask permission every time if that’s what you’re asking it was granted, from the beginning, that I could sign (Oesterling’s) name,” Hintz testified Thursday at the trial for Oesterling, 61, charged with running a criminal enterprise, maintaining a drug building and with five counts of delivery of a controlled substance. Hintz worked for Oesterling as office manager at all five of Oesterling’s clinics. Hintz, a nurse practitioner granted immunity from prosecution in return for her testimony against Oesterling, said the doctor permitted her to forge his signature on prescriptions or to write out prescriptions on forms he had pre-signed for use at his clinics, including one that formerly operated at 206 Montague Ave. Oesterling, testified Thursday that she forged Oesterling’s signature on prescriptions for narcotic painkillers, and wrote prescriptions on blank prescription forms already bearing Oesterling’s signature. Hintz, a key prosecution witness in the case against alleged “pill-mill” operator Dr. Hintz, a nurse practitioner working for Oesterling, maintains Oesterling permitted her to sign his name on prescription forms and to write out prescriptions on forms pre-signed by him. Oesterling, acknowledged forging Oesterling’s signature on prescriptions and writing prescriptions of blank prescription forms already bearing Oesterling’s signature. Hintz, testifying Thursday in the trial of Dr.
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