Showing posts with label PA Disciplined for implanted compounded bHRT pellets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PA Disciplined for implanted compounded bHRT pellets. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2013

PA Disciplined for implanted compounded bHRT pellets

You will want to read this disciplinary action found here.  Below is a summary provided by Dr. Kenneth Woliner of the case:

This physician assistant basically "played doctor" by "renting a MD supervising physician (who never showed up to "Millennium Medical Spa" which she owned)" by paying him $500/month (even though he never showed up). She implanted compounded bHRT pellets (specifically SottoPelle, made by "Solutions Pharmacy" of Chatenooga, TN)

Inserting pellets under local anesthesia is considered "surgery", and this physician assistant was clearly practicing beyond scope. Regardless, the patient was majorly overdosed on these hormones, having testosterone levels as high as a man. The patient didn't get a call back from the PA for a few days, then had a medication called in under the supervising physician's name (without his knowledge), and when the patient continued to have adverse effects and was rebuffed when she tried to speak to the non-existent MD, she went to her OB/GYN for treatment. Old records obtained including a falsified consent for procedure form. This is BAD.  (As an aside, the supervising physician, David Larkin, MD, got his license revoked in 2008 for aiding the unlicensed practice of medicine in his hair transplant business.)