. >> out in california, shawn barnes, a college student, was heading home for the holidays when her auntl her. >> i got that news, and you have all this time to think going across the country. and it was just like the strangest christmas present i ever could have imagined. >> shawn's mother phyllis barnes, remember, had been a patient of weinberger's and filed the first malpractice suit against him. >> i wasn't sure at first if it was a good or bad thing or what. >> by february 2010, arrangements for weinberger's extradition had been completed and he was back in the united states and facing a world of legal trouble. first, there was a 22-count federal criminal insurance fraud indictment charging him with billing for surgeries he didn't do and overbilling for those who did do. then hundreds of former patients were suing him for malpractice. >> what he has done to my daughter is horrific. >> remember valerie thomas' daughter kayla? she's the adorable 8-year-old who got sinus surgery from mark weinberger back in 2004 when her real problem was a brain tumor. >> he knew what he was doing. he

. >> shawn barnes, phyllis' daughter, was only 16 at the time. >> she did end up pulling through, buthin days of leaving the emergency room, phyllis was again gasping for breath. so in december 2001 she turned to another ear nose and throat doctor for relief. the new doctor immediately suspected something serious. her breathing was ragged and a large lump was visible on the side of her neck. >> he called me on my cell phone and he said he had just seen my sister and he felt that she had possibly advanced cancer, and he had scheduled her for a biopsy. >> that biopsy quickly confirmed the doctor's hunch. at 47, phyllis barnes had stage four throat cancer. >> honey, i hope you find something worthwhile to do today. >> a lifelong do-it-yourselfer, phyllis barnes was now facing the biggest recovery and rehab project of her life. >> daniel, do not say they're doing that to me. >> phyllis first came to northwest indiana from her native mississippi in the late '70s after college. >> i'm busy. >> but i love you, phyllis! >> oh, good. >> her sister peggy was already here and it was here that sh