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Associated Press - December 5, 2007
Dr. Robert W. Stokes is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court later this month for insurance fraud. The Grand Rapids Press reports he agreed through his attorney to turn over about 60 boxes of patient files and access to computer records.
Those records are believed to contain patient information from 2000 to 2005.
County authorities last month seized other records from Stokes' office covering patients he treated during the past two years.
Health officials are worried that as many as 10,000 patients risked exposure to diseases such as HIV and hepatitis.
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