{"id":32336,"date":"2026-03-26T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=32336"},"modified":"2026-03-26T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:27:00","slug":"120512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=32336","title":{"rendered":"Pediatrician Who Traded Drugs for Sex Gets 20 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/clf1.medpagetoday.com\/media\/images\/120xxx\/120512.jpg\" \/> (MedPage Today) &#8212; A former St. Louis County pediatrician was sentenced to 20 years in prison for prescribing pain pills and other drugs in exchange for sex acts, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).<br \/>\nCraig Spiegel, MD, who is now 70&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/pediatrics\/generalpediatrics\/120512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.medpagetoday.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MedPage Today) &#8212; A former St. Louis County pediatrician was sentenced to 20 years in prison for prescribing pain pills and other drugs in exchange for sex acts, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Craig Spiegel, MD, who is now 70&#8230; Source: www.medpagetoday.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[4243,9128,22474,13016,22473,10490],"class_list":["post-32336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-conditions","tag-drugs","tag-pediatrician","tag-prison","tag-sex","tag-traded","tag-years"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}