| Last week, a patient in Cleveland agreed to pay $100 to settle what were once felony charges for emailing his former Cleveland Clinic surgeon articles the doctor found threatening and posting a list on Yelp of all the surgeries the urologist had scheduled at the same time as the one that left the patient incontinent and impotent a decade ago. That ended a lengthy legal battle between the hospital and the patient, David Antoon. His case is part of a growing trend in which the medical community aggressively fights negative social media posts, including cases in Ohio, Arizona and Michigan.
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