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Re: Ohio Doctor Indicted For Internet Prescriptions
From: dennisj@vsta.com
Sun, 11 Jul 99 14:35:39 +0000
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I am sure this is wrong (to prescribe medication w/o seen the patient), but which are the principles and laws behind this issue? <pre> Ohio Doctor Indicted For Internet Prescriptions 02:35 p.m Jul 10, 1999 EasternCOLUMBUS, Ohio, (Reuters) - A family-practice doctor has been charged with 64 offenses in connection with prescribing drugs including Viagra on the Internet, the Columbus Dispatch reported Saturday.
Dr. Daniel Thompson, 44, whose offices are in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, was indicted Friday by a Franklin County grand jury, which also returned indictments against three companies with the same Dublin address as Thompson's, the newspaper said.
The companies were identified as Medisource Medical Centers, ID Limited, and Next Generation Health Systems.
Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said Thompson was the first Ohio doctor to be criminally charged after prescribing drugs over the Internet.
O'Brien told the Dispatch that Thompson approved prescribed for patients on his Web site without ever seeing them in person, which he said constituted drug trafficking.
Historically, any doctor who fails to follow procedures when prescribing controlled substances has faced prosecution, O'Brien said.
The prosecutor said Ohio medical and pharmacological boards had objected to Thompson's actions and Kansas medical authorities had filed lawsuits against him to stop him from using the Internet to fill prescriptions in their state.
In addition to the impotence drug Viagra, Thompson was accused in the indictment of prescribing Propecia, a hair-loss medication; and diet drugs phentermine and Meridia, both listed as controlled substances.
Max Kravitz, Thompson's attorney, said he had not committed any crime and would be vindicated by his own lawsuits filed this week against state medical and pharmacological in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
Those suits allege that the boards were illegally preventing him from his practice of medicine.
Thompson issued prescriptions on the Internet for nearly six months before he stopped using his Web site in March under pressure from the Ohio state boards.
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