Article: The long journey of John King, Embattled doctor's travels include troubled stop at Putnam General

Putnam General Hospital suspended the privileges of Dr. John Anderson King in June. It was not the first time King has run into controversy. King was fired from a hospital in Oklahoma City and arrested on misdemeanor charges of illegally removing logbooks from the operating room at Jackson County Hospital in Marianna, Fla. in 1999.

King paid settlements in two medical malpractice cases, one in April 1994 and the other in July 2000, according to New York Board of Medicine records.

A $550,000 settlement in 1994 went to a 52-year-old woman who became a paraplegic after receiving spinal anesthesia at Walker Regional Medical Center in Jasper, Ala., in January 1989. King paid $95,000 of the total.

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