SAN DIEGO — A California man convicted of practicing medicine without a lic🐼ense must pay more than $105 milꦫlion to a woman who said he falsely promised to cure her breast cancer.
San Diego jurors decided Wednesday that Robert O. Young must pay medica🅷l expenses and damages.
Young says he’ll appeal.
Young wrote “” and other best-selling books promoting an alternative theory of fighting illness.
Dawn Kali sued Young for fraud and negligence, saying she delayed regular cancer treatment and spent thousands on baking soda infusions and other therapies at Young’s Valley Center retreat.
She finally sought medical help in 2013 after cancer spread to her bones. She’s been given four years to live.
Young was sentenced last year to nearly four years in priꦅson for illegally practicing medicine.