A Long Island stripper, Rosana Kissoon, 39, has escalated her legal battle with Dr. Keith Hoerning, 51, by adding medical malpractice claims to her existing lawsuit. Kissoon alleges that Hoerning, a family physician, prescribed her a cocktail of peptide shots, an antidepressant, and weight loss treatments during their roughly year-and-a-half-long affair, which began in late 2024. The updated lawsuit, filed October 28, 2026, claims these treatments were administered without proper examination, medical charting, or fees, sometimes in informal settings like parking lots and hotel rooms, or via WhatsApp.
According to the court filings, Hoerning began prescribing the medications, many of which are not FDA-approved, in October 2025, showing Kissoon how to administer the peptide shots herself. The lawsuit states that these treatments continued for approximately eight months. The relationship reportedly ended in late May when Kissoon informed Hoerning's wife of the affair. Following this revelation, Hoerning allegedly reported Kissoon to the police, and her medical regimen was abruptly cut off without any tapering or instructions.
Kissoon's legal team claims this abrupt cessation of treatment caused significant physical and behavioral issues, including stomach problems, mood and behavioral changes, shoulder and chest pain, and ongoing evaluation for potential heart issues. She has reportedly been in counseling since June.
Hoerning's lawyer, Bruce Barket, has vehemently denied the new claims, characterizing them as a "sleazy attempt at a cash grab" and blackmail. Barket stated that Hoerning did nothing wrong other than engaging in the affair, and that Kissoon's claims of medical malpractice are baseless and frivolous. He suggested that Hoerning had paid Kissoon to maintain her silence about the affair, and that her lawsuit is a reaction to the cessation of these payments.
Barket asserted that Kissoon "has no damages, nothing happened to this woman other than her gravy train stopped." He also claimed that Hoerning sent Kissoon a cease-and-desist letter on May 15, 2025, to cease contact with him and his family. However, according to Kissoon's lawsuit, Hoerning continued to communicate with her, sending her a family photo two days later and meeting her at a hotel for a peptide injection on May 24, 2025, shortly before she contacted his wife.
Michael Treanor, Kissoon's lawyer, countered that Hoerning failed to meet the standard of care for his patient, regardless of their personal relationship. "A doctor doesn’t get to set aside the standard of care because the patient is someone he’s involved with," Treanor stated, adding that Kissoon is still dealing with the consequences of the interrupted treatment and that they intend to prove their claims in court.