Convicted ‘Runaway Doctor' Starts New Life After Prison, Leaving Former Patient Shocked

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Convicted ‘Runaway Doctor' Starts New Life After Prison, Leaving Former Patient Shocked
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Former sinus surgeon Mark Weinberger was convicted of 22 counts of health care fraud in northwest Indiana in 2012. Now he’s out of prison and one of his patients says she can’t believe where Dateline and NBC 5 found him and what he’s doing now.

"I was dizzy. I was nauseous. I was throwing up all the time," Kayla recalled.

"They only got 10 percent," said Thomas, noting that 90 percent of the tumor is still inside her daughter."To me it was all about greed. He wanted as much money as he can get," said Thomas.Weinberger averted law enforcement for three years until December 2009, when Italian police found him on a snowy mountainside. He was reportedly living in a tent, 6,000 feet up in the Italian Alps.

Since prison, Weinberger seemed to have dabbled in crypto currency on YouTube, referring to himself as Mark W.NBC News's investigation of Weinberger's online activity also found him referring to himself now as a yoga doc. In online videos he's seen selling yoga classes that will turn a nerd into a ninja or a zero to a superhero. He says people work out for two reasons: get"hot chicks" and"look great naked.

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