Another jury sending a message. The incident involves giving Glipizide, a diabetes medicine. Noted in the case, was the Oxycontin-addicted pharmacist who stole 86,000 pills over an eight-year period.
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Gee, thats only about 10 cents for every man, woman, and child in America; or about 1000 years of median wages. Given the immortality the average American envisions, this is a rather small sum. I’m sure I wouldn’t have noticed that the wrong precription had been dispensed either. The shocking part is the 86,000 stolen pills!
I’m kind of wondering what kind of legal theory was used to attribute this patient’s renal failure to the glipizide. If he’d developed hypoglycemic encephalopathy, that would have been one thing…but renal failure?
John
Wow! The most amazing part of this story is the last few words: “continues to dispense medicine in Illinois on a probationary license”. Who the hell hires an admitted drug thief and drug addict to work as a pharmacist?? Incredible.
“Wow! The most amazing part of this story is the last few words: “continues to dispense medicine in Illinois on a probationary license”. Who the hell hires an admitted drug thief and drug addict to work as a pharmacist?? Incredible.”
Because pharmacists are really in that high demand. It is mind-boggling, I agree.
There are more pharmacists with drug problems than I think most of the public realizes. I would be willing to bet that doctors have similar stats.
” Peter Aloys Ahles surrendered his license in February for alleged prescription drug violations. Undercover federal drug agents arrested the Anaheim physician in June 2005 after he allegedly sold them 1,500 prescription painkillers for $1,600 without a medical purpose. Federal drug agents determined that Ahles had purchased 1.2 million tablets of painkillers from wholesalers in 2004 and 2005. Agents also found $1.35 million in cash in Ahles’ car, office and home. The medical board’s charges against Ahles also include the overdose death of one of his patients, a 39-year-old woman, to whom he had prescribed painkillers without an examination. Prior to surrendering his license, Ahles had successfully appealed the revocation of his medical license three times and instead served probations in 1976, 1995 and 1997. Ahles was indicted by a federal grand jury in July 2005 for illegally selling drugs. His attorney did not respond to calls for comment.”
Either this wonderful healer will get his license back or become a border jumper and end up pracitcing in Nevada, Arizona, etc.
With pharmacies having to do regular inventories of narcotics and other controlled substances, it’s hard to see how that could have gone on for 8 years with no-one other than the pharmacist wiser.
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