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1978 Accused by the Medical Board of California of incompetence in the care of female patients. Thirty days actual suspension and five years probation.

1980 Tries for four days to kill Baby Boy Sanchez, who is then born alive at Indio Community Hospital. A few hours later, Durante comes in and privately pronounces the baby dead and has the body immediately incinerated in the lab.

1985 Durante's malpractice insurer, Saint Paul Fire, cancels his policy.

1986 Indio Community Hospital, now JFK Hospital, reviews Durante for several cases of injury to women (which require emergency surgery), finds he has no malpractice coverage, and terminates his staff privileges.

1986 Desert Hospital terminates his staff privileges, and Durante is no longer associated with any hospital.

1986 Indio Community Hospital files an 805 Report (list of cases botched by Durante) with the medical board.

1996 Medical board files accusation in the case of a baby who survives a Durante abortion at Womancare in San Diego. Durant is found negligent, is fined $14,000, and placed again on probation.

1996 Durante hires Bruce Steir, who had been thrown off the medical staff at the Camp Pendleton naval hospital in 1985 and was the subject of complaints of negligence. Medical board records show three Steir cases that required surgery to repair injuries, including one where fetal skull protruded through rent in uterus. Steir is hit with second-degree murder charge after Sharon Hamplton bleeds to death after abortion by Steir in Durante's clinic in December. The Riverside DA reveals that Durante has no licensed staff and has hired Steir without telling the medical board.

1997 Frontier Insurance cancels Durante's coverage.

1998 Medical board suspends Durante's license for two months for falsifying his state Medi-Cal application.

2000 Medical board files case based on 1998 treatment of Anne Marie Santana

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