# @newsday on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DN6N7x9jE_Y
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38514871-newsday-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/365bd0009c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-28T19:00:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newsday • Long Island News (@newsday) — https://gondola.cc/newsday

## Caption

Kerry Dinallo can hardly recall what life was like before her spinal surgery with Dr. Alexios Apazidis.

The Deer Park orthopedic surgeon, who's been accused of fraudulently copying and pasting dozens of operative reports verbatim for patients involved in home, workplace and vehicular accidents, severed Dinallo's jugular vein during spinal fusion surgery, leaving her near death on the operating table, court records show.

To read more about this story, click the link in bio.

(Photo credits: Precision Pain & Spine Institute, Howard Simmons)
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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Stephanie Naranjo | @Tephy.Naranjo | https://gondola.cc/Tephy.Naranjo | Content Producer |
| Newsday • Long Island News | @newsday | https://gondola.cc/newsday | Reporter/Journalist |

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