Bush's Abstienence-Czar, Keroack , who quit US post was warned by state

Doctor who quit US post was warned by state
Medical board cited prescriptions

By Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | April 7, 2007

Two months before he resigned from a top federal family planning position, Marblehead gynecologist Eric Keroack received two formal warnings from the Massachusetts board of medicine ordering him to refrain from prescribing drugs to people who are not his patients and from providing mental health counseling without proper training.

Keroack resigned last week as head of the US Office of Population Affairs, which is responsible for providing low-income women with access to contraceptives, after he was notified that the state's Medicaid office had launched an investigation into his private practice. The office, whose investigations generally focus on Medicaid fraud, declined to provide specifics about what it is investigating but confirmed there was a pending case dating back a "few years."

The warnings from the Board of Registration in Medicine stem from a complaint filed in May 2005 by the daughter of one of Keroack's patients, who said he overmedicated her mother, prescribing several powerful psychotherapeutic drugs, and "brainwashed" her into thinking she was "severely depressed."

The daughter, whose name was withheld, also said Keroack gave her parents money and presents, and allegedly issued a fraudulent prescription for the anti depressant Zoloft to her sister -- who had insurance -- when their uninsured mother became unable to pay for the prescription herself.

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President Bush appointed Keroack -- a doctor known for his anti abortion work and advocacy for abstinence programs -- to lead the federal government's family planning efforts in November, triggering an immediate outcry from abortion-rights activists. He had been on the job less than five months when he announced his resignation last week.

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With this cabal, the more psychotic one is the better qualified they are.

Sick.

Oh, I forgot, Nazis were often efficient & competent. Can't have that either.

For legally prescribing medications.

Is Keroack being prosecuted for illegally writing a prescription?

gee, whoda thunk it? Really, I'm series.

Is it safe to assume that if people are unscrupulous in their own private fields of practice, that they won't have the qualities nor discipline to handle a public servant job?

It's not super unusual for a doctor to write a scrip for the person in the family with insurance when it's to go to the one without coverage (bad practice, but it's done), but the Medicaid story is interesting. You'd think the administration would have looked into that before putting him into office.

Took my partner to the ER- resp distress and turns out he had really bad bronchitis.
He didn't have insurance through his work, but I had it through mine. We weren't married, so he wasn't eligible for spouse/family coverage under my insurance.

The script the doctor was writing would have been affordable for me, but not him.
'Splained this to the doc, and she said "No, she couldn't do that, but there WAS charity funding available for this sort of thing at this particular hospital, and here's what we'll do."

Ended up paying about $10.00 for the script, which was a 'donation' that he could afford.

Thoought that was pretty cool of the doc. :thumbsup:

Yay for good docs! :)

the wacky Christofascists that this regime likes to appoint to high level jobs.

It's going to take years for us to get our governmental agencies operating on a decent level of service.

Can we impeach now?