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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, is a former physician and {{OBGYN}} in Palm Beach County, Florida. His license to practice medicine was revoked by the [https://flboardofmedicine.gov/ Florida Board of Medicine] on 5 February 2021 with an effective date of 22 February 2021.<ref name="graziosi2024">{{REFnews
|title=Doctor linked to multiple deaths after severing a baby’s penis in botched circumcision
Dr. Lopez has been named as a defendant in numerous cases of malpractice and wrongful death.<ref name="1baltz2024" />
===Damages===
The total amount of damages will never be known because three lawsuits, those of infant Earl Buchanan, JoAnn CatletJoann Catlett, 47, and Baby R.R.R. were settled out of court.<ref name="1baltz2024" /> The Palm Beach Post reported, "Lopez stopped carrying malpractice insurance about 2003. He's faced five malpractice suits and four disciplinary complaints since then."<ref name="ninesuits2021>{{REFnews |title=Average OB-GYN faces 2 or 3 lawsuits during a career. This Palm Beach County doctor had 9 |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/09/23/florida-doctor-medical-malpractice-lawsuits-women-babies-died/8336090002/ |last=Sangalang |first=Jennifer |init= |author-link= |last2=Baltz |first2=Holly |init2= |author2-link= |publisher=The Palm Beach Post |website= |date=2021-09-23 |accessdate=2024-10-06 |format= |quote=}}</ref> The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation lists two other malpractice settlements for $250,000 for each of the patients.<ref name="ninesuits2021 /> More recently in 2024, jurors awarded $100 million to the family of a boy who lost a third of his penis during a botched circumcision by Dr. Berto Lopez in West Palm Beach.<ref name="phillips2024">{{REFnews |title='His last butchered patient': Ex-doctor owes $100 million to family of boy whose penis he severed |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2024/08/28/palm-beach-county-doctor-berto-lopez-owes-100-million-for-botched-circumcision-severing-babys-penis/74918276007/ |last=Phillips |first=Hannah |init= |author-link= |publisher=The Palm Beach Post |website= |date=2024-08-28 |accessdate=2024-10-06 |quote=}}</ref> Dr. Lopez claims he has no money,<ref name="phillips2024" /> so it is unlikely that his victims will be able to collect money damages.
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* [[Jean-Marie Huot]]
* [[Obstetricians and the American circumcision scandal]]
* [[United States of America]]