What Happened
Rawlins physician indicted on 30 charges in March 2019 pleaded guilty to 20 of them for prescribing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the course of professional practice, and agreed to forever relinquish his medical license and prescription authority.
Reported status: Pleaded guilty; convicted (2020); sentence not reported in the source.
About This Entry
This entry reports only what the linked source states. Fields the source does not state (for example the employer type, drug schedule or a sentence) are left out rather than inferred, so it is shorter than the registry's fully analysed cases.
Related Guidance
- Hospital Diversion Prevention Checklist — Self-assessment covering the controls that detect and deter diversion.
- 15 Red Flags of Drug Diversion — Behavioral and recordkeeping indicators of diversion.
- Investigation Playbook — How to run an internal diversion investigation.
- Employee Screening & Fitness for Duty — Screening and vetting for staff with controlled substance access.