What Happened
The Board summarily suspended a psychiatrist's license on an emergency basis.
The Board concluded that the public health, safety, and welfare required emergency action based on investigative findings that the physician engaged in unprofessional conduct, including inappropriate prescribing practices: prescribing large quantities of CDS in the names of 12 individuals for whom the physician could not provide medical records, and picking up the filled prescriptions himself Date of action: June 13, 2005.
What the Record Shows
Summary Suspension
Why It Matters for Diversion Programs
This entry comes from a primary source rather than a federal enforcement release, and it is recorded as reported: prescribing large quantities of CDS in the names of 12 individuals for whom the physician could not provide medical records, and picking up the filled prescriptions himself. Board and news records are a lagging indicator - by the time a licensing authority or a reporter learns of a diversion, the diversion was normally detected internally first, which makes each entry a signal that inventory reconciliation, waste observation or dispensing oversight failed earlier.