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10-07-2005, 10:04 PM
Suspended physician can practice again
Dr. WC, 50, will be closely supervised as he works at the Garden City Treatment Center in Cranston.
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 15, 2005
BY FELICE J. FREYER
Journal Medical Writer
The state medical board has once again allowed Dr. WC to resume practicing medicine, with restrictions, after his license was suspended in 1999 and again in 2004.
With both suspensions, the health director declared C an immediate danger to the public and abruptly pulled his license without a hearing.
In the 1999 case, C , an internist, was found to have had sex with patients to whom he was prescribing inappropriate quantities of narcotics. His license was restored -- with restrictions -- in 2003, but in 2004 it was pulled again when he improperly reinserted a feeding tube in a nursing-home patient, who then died of complications related to the procedure.
Yesterday, the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline restored C license a second time, with many restrictions, including a five-year probation.
"We feel this does give us appropriate security with regard to monitoring of his practice as well as his behavior," said Dr. RC , the board's chief administrative officer.
Under the terms of consent order that he signed, C , 50, will be working as an urgent-care physician at the Garden City Treatment Center in Cranston, and cannot work anywhere else in Rhode Island without the board's approval.
He will be supervised by Dr. AM , who will review Creighton's work every two weeks for one year and as often as M feels necessary for the next four years. M will submit quarterly reports to the board.
The order also requires C to have a chaperone present whenever he examines a female patient, to participate in psychotherapy at least twice a month, to be monitored by the Physicians Health Committee of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and to undergo 40 hours of medical education each year. When prescribing controlled substances, C must use a duplicate sequentially numbered prescription pad that M will review.
In an unrelated action yesterday, the board granted a trainee license to Dr. MB , 30, but placed him on probation because he had been expelled from his first medical school and had to complete his medical degree at another school. Boutros is starting a Brown Medical School residency in internal medicine at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in Pawtucket.
The board has recently been giving closer scrutiny to doctors coming to Rhode Island for postgraduate training, C said, and the practice of putting those who have had problems on probation is new this year. If a doctor-in-training is on probation, the board can more quickly and easily pull his or her license if it hears any negative reports.
B had been asked to leave the University of Iowa College of Medicine because he falsified information in a patient record. C said that B , while studying obstetrics, reported that he had seen a patient, when in fact the patient had already left the floor because she went into labor. His fabrication did not affect her care because B was just a student. But the transgression was considered serious enough to end his schooling at Iowa.
B then enrolled in the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, which required him to repeat his third and fourth years. "He was a very good student in everything but obstetrics," C said. "The rest of his records in medical school look pretty good."
C said that Memorial Hospital performed a thorough background check on B and did not turn up any other problems.
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Dr. WC, 50, will be closely supervised as he works at the Garden City Treatment Center in Cranston.
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, September 15, 2005
BY FELICE J. FREYER
Journal Medical Writer
The state medical board has once again allowed Dr. WC to resume practicing medicine, with restrictions, after his license was suspended in 1999 and again in 2004.
With both suspensions, the health director declared C an immediate danger to the public and abruptly pulled his license without a hearing.
In the 1999 case, C , an internist, was found to have had sex with patients to whom he was prescribing inappropriate quantities of narcotics. His license was restored -- with restrictions -- in 2003, but in 2004 it was pulled again when he improperly reinserted a feeding tube in a nursing-home patient, who then died of complications related to the procedure.
Yesterday, the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline restored C license a second time, with many restrictions, including a five-year probation.
"We feel this does give us appropriate security with regard to monitoring of his practice as well as his behavior," said Dr. RC , the board's chief administrative officer.
Under the terms of consent order that he signed, C , 50, will be working as an urgent-care physician at the Garden City Treatment Center in Cranston, and cannot work anywhere else in Rhode Island without the board's approval.
He will be supervised by Dr. AM , who will review Creighton's work every two weeks for one year and as often as M feels necessary for the next four years. M will submit quarterly reports to the board.
The order also requires C to have a chaperone present whenever he examines a female patient, to participate in psychotherapy at least twice a month, to be monitored by the Physicians Health Committee of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and to undergo 40 hours of medical education each year. When prescribing controlled substances, C must use a duplicate sequentially numbered prescription pad that M will review.
In an unrelated action yesterday, the board granted a trainee license to Dr. MB , 30, but placed him on probation because he had been expelled from his first medical school and had to complete his medical degree at another school. Boutros is starting a Brown Medical School residency in internal medicine at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, in Pawtucket.
The board has recently been giving closer scrutiny to doctors coming to Rhode Island for postgraduate training, C said, and the practice of putting those who have had problems on probation is new this year. If a doctor-in-training is on probation, the board can more quickly and easily pull his or her license if it hears any negative reports.
B had been asked to leave the University of Iowa College of Medicine because he falsified information in a patient record. C said that B , while studying obstetrics, reported that he had seen a patient, when in fact the patient had already left the floor because she went into labor. His fabrication did not affect her care because B was just a student. But the transgression was considered serious enough to end his schooling at Iowa.
B then enrolled in the Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, which required him to repeat his third and fourth years. "He was a very good student in everything but obstetrics," C said. "The rest of his records in medical school look pretty good."
C said that Memorial Hospital performed a thorough background check on B and did not turn up any other problems.
edited for names.