Harsh punishments rare for drug compounding mistakes - USA Today
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Mar 20, 2013 - Often, the pharmacy and those who run it stay in business, sometimes with tragic results. ... government investigations to high-profile steroids scandals in sports and ... But that's the board's only bullet: Like many state pharmacy boards that ... In April 2009, 21 polo horses from a Venezuela-based team died ...
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This happens in the human compounding pharmacy business too. Gary Osborn's ApotheCure Pharmacy, after poisoning patiets with improperly compounded IV colchicine, has been losing licenses in various states, including Florida. That didn't stop him from opening a new pharmacy, NuVision Pharmacy, at the same location, using the same pharmacy staff, to obtain licenses to operate, including Florida.
Also in Florida, Paul W. Franck, R.Ph. was forced to close his pharmacy "Franck's Compounding Lab" after causing the death of 21 polo ponies and blinding several human patients. But, without a single dollar of fines paid, he was allowed to open a second pharmacy down the street, "Trinity Care Pharmacy", to do the exact same thing, namely compound drugs in an unsafe manner.
And if that wasn't enough, a third example from Florida, "FH Investments Inc d/b/a Concern Care Pharmacy" shut down while under investigation for shipping compounded HCG to unlicensed persons for further distribution (no valid prescriptions from a medical doctor), but the owner, Bill Fixler, was allowed to keep active the license of his other pharmacy, "FH Investments d/b/a Inverness Apothecary", without any discipline to his licenses.
Until state boards of pharmacy impose discipline on the ringleaders of these operations, abuses (and adverse events in patients) will continue to occur.
Kenneth Woliner, MD
www.holisticfamilymed.com
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