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  • Haggard Questions Medical Procedure

    11/06/2002 11:08:03 AM PST · by GeneD · 195+ views
    Filed at 1:33 p.m. ET LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Country music legend Merle Haggard believes he may have been one of the patients who received unnecessary procedures at a Redding hospital, which FBI agents raided last week. Federal authorities are investigating whether Dr. Chae Moon, director of cardiology at Redding Medical Center, and Dr. Fidel Realyvasquez Jr., chairman of the center's cardiac surgery program, ordered costly surgeries for healthy patients and then billed Medicare. Neither physician has been charged. Haggard, 65, returned home to Redding after being on tour and found the town in an uproar over the allegations. The...