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Doc was in ‘very dark place’ after falsifying script
After surviving cancer, a health professional began to prescribe and use opioids illicitly A medical practitioner has been reprimanded and his registration suspended for three months after he presented falsified …
API to ‘vigorously defend’ action
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries has confirmed that a class action has been filed against it API has issued a statement confirming that a class action has been filed against it in …
‘Bags and bags’ of drugs in notification pics
A pharmacy owner’s immediate suspension was set aside after she appealed the 2020 decision The owner of a Queensland pharmacy faced the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal in an appeal …
World news wrapup: 7 October 2021
Irish pharmacist slams “show trial” over Facebook like; US licence exam bungle; jail over $17m in claims for unnecessary compounded meds scripts Dublin, Ireland: A pharmacist has slammed allegations against …
‘I did access these records, harmlessly I felt.’
A NSW health professional inappropriately accessed 35 people’s medical records, some in the context of the “enormous pressure and stress of a messy family law court” The NSW Civil and …
‘Extraordinary pressure’ led intern to fraud, forgery
Overwhelmed with administrative tasks, an intern found her workplace “suffocating and undoubtedly stressful” and was desperate to get a different job… so she faked her practice hours to get away …
‘Inexcusable:’ vax syringe barrels allegedly re-used
A pharmacist has been fired and conditions placed on his registration after he allegedly re-used syringe barrels when vaccinating patients, who were potentially exposed to blood-borne illness The College of …
Suspended after vaccine ‘poison’ comments
A health professional has been reprimanded after he took part in a YouTube video called “Nazi vaccine regime in Australia” The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal has heard the case …
Nearly one million dollars in fraud
A pharmacist has admitted he re-labelled generic drugs as name brand medications and then sold them as if they were the more expensive drugs A US pharmacist has pleaded guilty …
GP who attacked pharmacist receives ‘longest ever ban’
A doctor jailed over the attempted murder of a pharmacist, who had notified Ahpra about his improper prescribing practices, has been slapped with an effective lifetime ban A South Australian …
Pharmacist’s behaviour ‘denounced in the strongest of terms’
No conditions it could impose could mitigate the risk to the public posed by a NSW pharmacist if he repeated his misconduct, a Tribunal has decided A pharmacist has been …