Summaries of Regents Actions
On Professional Misconduct and Discipline*
June 2005
Architecture - Chiropractic - Dentistry - Engineering and Land Surveying - Massage Therapy - Medicine - Nursing - Pharmacy - Physical Therapy - Podiatry - Respiratory Therapy - Social Work - Veterinary Medicine
Architecture
Anthony Cucich, Flushing, NY
Profession: Architect; Lic. No. 013469; Cal. No.
21982
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Partial actual suspension in certain area until successful
completion of coursework in that certain area, 1 year stayed suspension,
1 year probation, $5,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
willfully filing a false report with the New York City Department
of Buildings regarding a Local Law 11 inspection.
JFT Architect International, P.C., 1156 Namdac Avenue, Bay Shore, NY 11706
Profession: Architecture; Cal. No. 21793
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also January 2009)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $2,500
fine.
Summary: Respondent did not contest charges of failing
to provide details concerning the fastening of the flitch plate girder
and failing to designate the size of supports for the flitch plate
girder and its supporting members on a set of architectural plans
signed and sealed by respondent’s president.
Jose Francisco Taveras, Bay Shore, NY
Profession: Architect; Lic. No. 021742; Cal. No.
21741
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also January 2009)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 year stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $2,500
fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to provide details concerning the fastening of the flitch plate girder
and failing to designate the size of supports for the flitch plate
girder and its supporting members on a set of architectural plans
signed and sealed by him.
Chiropractic
Donald Halverson, Ridgewood, NY
Profession: Chiropractor; Lic. No. 008733; Cal.
No. 21893
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to maintain a record for a patient that accurately reflected
the evaluation and treatment of the patient.
Dentistry
Andrea Lois Cymrot-Cohen, Wurtsboro, NY
Profession: Dental Hygienist; Lic. No. 011374; Cal.
No. 22243
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
submitting a reregistration application in which she stated that
she had completed required continuing education, when, in fact, she
had not.
Rony Elyahouzadeh, Elizabeth, NJ
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 047375; Cal. No. 22181
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 6 months actual suspension, 30 months stayed suspension,
3 years probation, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been found guilty by the New Jersey Board of Dentistry of professional
misconduct.
Michael Klein, Tuxedo, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 029030; Cal. No. 21577
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 3 months actual suspension, 57 months stayed suspension,
5 years probation, $7,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge that he
failed to use scientifically accepted infection prevention techniques
appropriate to the profession of dentistry.
John F. McPartlin, Bayside, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 035160; Cal. No. 21664
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also April
1998)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $2,500
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of having
been convicted of Driving While Intoxicated.
Alvin Bernard Olesh, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 030209; Cal. Nos.
21238, 21435
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of violation
of probation by failing to comply with terms of probation that were
established in separate orders, dated October 7, 2003 and February
24, 2004.
Harry Raff, New York, NY
Profession: Dentist; Lic. No. 042735; Cal. No. 22134
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $10,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
practicing the profession of dentistry after the expiration of a
conditional registration.
Engineering and Land Surveying
Patrick Thomas O’Connell, New York, NY
Profession: Professional Engineer, Lic. No. 055159;
Cal. No. 21987
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $2,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to recognize that a building inspected by him required a
repair and maintenance program in order to render the building safe.
Massage Therapy
Christopher Dansby Fisher, New York, NY
Profession: Massage Therapy; Lic. No. 007983; Cal.
No. 21271
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 6 months actual suspension with leave to apply for early
termination – upon licensee's return to practice, 2 years probation.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
massaging the vaginal area of a client during a massage.
Medicine
James Michael Kohan, Wind Gap, PA, Woodgate, NY and New Hartford, NY
Profession: Medicine; Lic. No. 143986; Cal. No.
22173
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Indefinite suspension until certain conditions are met as
set forth in Regents Review Committee report.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of having not
paid all of the arrears of child support and maintenance that were
established by the Order and Judgment of Supreme Court of the State
of New York, County of Oneida.
Nursing
Barbara W. Anderson, Cutchogue, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 261046; Cal. No. 21873
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation as set forth
in consent order application, $250 fine.
Summary: Respondent did not contest the charge that
she caused medication intended for one patient to be administered
to another.
Nadine Simone Burnett, Freeport, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 480954; Cal. No. 21972
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Partial actual suspension in certain area until successful
completion of coursework in that certain area, 2 years probation,
$500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to pick up an order of accu-checks for a patient and transcribing
a medication order for the wrong patient.
P. Jeannie Camelo, Hamilton, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 509221; Cal. No. 22082
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to complete blood glucose tests and making documentation errors.
Eleanor Dent, Buffalo, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse, Nurse Practitioner; Lic. Nos. 047664, 268414;
Cert. No. 340096; Cal. Nos. 22066, 22067, 22068
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 6 months actual suspension – upon licensee's return
to practice, 3 years probation.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been found by the Commissioner of Health to be in violation of Article
33 of the Public Health Law by issuing prescriptions prior to the
time allowed.
Amanda R. Drayton a/k/a Amanda R. Smith, Silver Lake, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 274083;
Cal. No. 22100
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, 1 year probation, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of incorrect
administration of medication and incorrect documentation.
Angelique Gabrielle Golab a/k/a Angelique Gabrielle Hendel, Depew, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 522894; Cal. No. 22128
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of failing
to properly administer medications and failing to maintain accurate
patient records.
Theresa Geraci, Wappingers Falls, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 263737;
Cal. No. 20907
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: 5 years suspension, execution of last 3 years of suspension
stayed, probation 5 years.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of abandoning
a patient who was under and in need of immediate professional care
without making reasonable arrangements for the continuation of such
care.
Dawn Marie Hoffman, Rochester, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 480602; Cal. No. 22094
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also June
1999 and March
2001)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Indefinite actual suspension of no less than one year
and until fit to practice – upon licensee's return to practice, 3
years probation, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing
medication errors and opiate addiction.
Ann Marie Kakavand a/k/a Ann Marie Rutkowski, Getzville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 149666, 356193; Cal. Nos. 21843, 21844
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also October
2007)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing
medication errors.
Jeannette Laguerre, New York, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 309367; Cal. No. 21517
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years actual suspension, with leave to apply for early
termination after 3 months – upon service or early termination of
actual suspension, 2 years probation.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
failing to respond appropriately to a nursing home resident who was
found slumped in his chair and appeared not to be breathing, and
whom licensee believed had choked.
Robert J. Larrow, Mineville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 225064, 453361; Cal. Nos. 22130, 22131
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation as set
forth in consent order application, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in
the 7th Degree, a class A misdemeanor.
Noreen Lingham a/k/a Noreen Ross, Hicksville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 229651, 456687; Cal. Nos. 21808, 21809
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also December
2001)
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to comply with universal standards of infection control, providing
unauthorized direct "hands-on-nursing" care to a patient,
breaching patient confidentiality, and misrepresenting her position
to other nurses.
Kathleen Mayers, North Babylon, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 255970;
Cal. No. 21754
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated.
Laurel C. McKenzie a/k/a Laurel Camela McKenzie-Drayton, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 163033, 421851; Cal. Nos. 22053, 22054
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge
of failing to check a patient’s identification band when assisting
with the hanging of blood for the patient.
Mherlyn Moidel, Mineola, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 262569;
Cal. No. 22129
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of forging
the initials of another nurse on a Medication Administration Record
and on a Controlled Substance Sheet.
Todd W. Monte, Amityville, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 259693, 515710; Cal. Nos. 22120, 22121
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation as set forth
in consent order application, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to properly assess the condition of two patients.
Elizabeth Sharon Cahill Parks, Schenectady, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 183773; Cal. No. 22019
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of inaccurate
record keeping.
Charmaine Theresa Phillip, Troy, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 260349;
Cal. No. 22017
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year stayed suspension, 1 year probation, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing medication
errors.
Susan Jean Pirro a/k/a Susan La Tulip Spadafora, Macedon, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 195904; Cal. No. 22096
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, 1 year probation, 50 hours of
public service.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of failing
to note a neurocheck assessment in a patient’s record and failing
to timely notify a minor patient’s parents.
Kelly A. Richert, Troy, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 514859; Cal. No. 22039
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of committing
medication errors.
Melissa J. Rifenburg, Commack, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 523521; Cal. No. 22116
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Indefinite actual suspension of not less than 6 months
as set forth in consent order application – upon licensee's return
to practice, 2 years probation.
Summary: Respondent admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Criminally Negligent Homicide.
Santosh Sharma Rikhi, Rego Park, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 197396, 431000; Cal. Nos. 21825, 21826
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 23 months stayed suspension,
2 years probation.
Summary: Respondent did not contest charges of failing
to properly assess a newborn and failing to maintain accurate patient
records for said newborn.
Ceceline Delores Samuels, Bronx, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 235417, 466498; Cal. Nos. 22103, 22104
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 23 months stayed suspension,
2 years probation, $500 fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
willfully abusing a patient physically and verbally.
Profession:Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 193309, 411756; Cal. Nos. 22089, 22090
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Censure and Reprimand, successful completion of certain
course.
Summary: Licensee did not contest the charge of
commencing a blood transfusion into a patient, without having first
taken all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that the blood
being transfused into said patient was intended for said patient.
Susan R. Tinio, Saddle Brook, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse; Lic.
No. 361873; Cal. No. 21649
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation as set
forth in consent order application, $1,000 fine.
Summary: Respondent did not contest charges of failing
to chart the administration of calcium citrate medication, failing
to properly replace the intravenous nutrition for one of her patients
with a new unit of that nutrition, and failing to document for her
shift the treatment and condition of one of her patients.
Andrew Jason White, Plattsburgh, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse, Registered
Professional Nurse; Lic. Nos. 256516, 510017; Cal. Nos. 21662, 21663
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Suspension until terminated as set forth in Regents Review
Committee report – upon termination of suspension, probation 2 years.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of having
been convicted of: Attempted Assault in the 3rd Degree, a class B
misdemeanor; Driving While Intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor;
and Aggravated Unlicensed Operation of a Motor Vehicle, 2nd Degree,
an unclassified misdemeanor.
Cheryl C. Williams, Cortland, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 212772;
Cal. No. 22193
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 month actual suspension, 11 months stayed suspension,
1 year probation, $250 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
violated section 2803-d of the Public Health Law by administering
an incorrect dose of Roxanol to a patient.
B. Lee Wilson, Troy, NY
Profession: Licensed Practical Nurse; Lic. No. 256227;
Cal. No. 21446
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of having
been convicted of Possessing a Sexual Performance by a Child, a class
E felony.
Susan Christine Winkley, Niagara Falls, NY
Profession: Registered Professional Nurse, Nurse
Practitioner; Lic. No. 290319; Cert. No. 332944; Cal. Nos. 22226,
22227
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also July
1996)
Action: Application to surrender license and certificate
granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted under Federal law of Acquiring a Controlled Substance
by Misrepresentation.
Pharmacy
Frank John Nocilla, Hadley, NY
Profession: Pharmacist; Lic. No. 031868; Cal. No.
21936
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 1 year actual suspension, 5 years probation to commence
upon licensee's return to practice.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Criminal Diversion of Prescription Medications.
Sanjay I. Patel, Ardsley, NY
Profession:
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of having
been convicted of: two counts of Forcible Touching, a class A misdemeanor;
Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 5th Degree, a class
D felony for sale of a controlled substance on May 8, 2001; and Criminal
Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 5th Degree, a class D felony
for sale of a controlled substance on May 24, 2001.
Physical Therapy
Milton Beamer, Babylon, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist; Lic. No. 019707;
Cal. No. 22151
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $750 fine.
Summary: Respondent did not contest the charge of
practicing the profession of physical therapy while suffering from
a sinus infection that rendered him unable to perform his duties.
Richard Joseph Cowan, Massapequa Park, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist; Lic. No. 011197;
Cal. No. 20704
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found guilty of engaging in
an intimate sexual relationship with a patient for a period of more
then two and a half years. During this period licensee had sexual
relations with the patient both in his office and at other locations.
Licensee evidenced moral unfitness to practice the profession and
willfully abusing the patient physically by engaging in the sexual
relationship.
Gerard Fiordalisi, Brooklyn, NY
Profession: Physical Therapist; Lic. No. 006109;
Cal. No. 22091
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $5,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges that he
permitted unlicensed personnel to apply moist hot packs and electrical
stimulation and to administer ultrasound to patients.
Podiatry
Robert Jay Goldstein, Melville, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 004836; Cal. No.
21895
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Found guilty of professional misconduct;
Penalty: Revocation.
Summary: Licensee was found to be guilty of having
been convicted of: Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights; Attempt to
Damage Religious Property, Obstruction of Persons in the Free Exercise
of Religious Beliefs; and Possession of Firearms Not Registered to
Him.
Alan S. Katz, Nanuet, NY
Profession: Podiatrist; Lic. No. 004106; Cal. No.
22047
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005 (see also June
1996)
Action: Application to surrender license granted.
Summary: Licensee admitted to charges of having
been convicted under Federal law of Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud
and Health Care Fraud and to make false statements relating to health
care matters; and of Health Care Fraud.
Respiratory Therapy
Aju A. Oommen, Floral Park, NY
Profession: Respiratory Therapy Technician, Respiratory
Therapist; Lic. Nos. 001501, 004834; Cal. Nos. 21389, 21390
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 4 months actual suspension, 20 months stayed suspension,
2 years probation.
Summary: Licensee did not contest charges of entering
values in patient treatment records when he knew the measurements
for said values had not been taken.
Social Work
Suzannah Hoos-Lang, Tonawanda, NY
Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic.
No. 036734; Cal. No. 22119
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Indefinite actual suspension for no less than 2 years
and until fit to practice - upon licensee's return to practice, 2
years probation.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Criminal Possession of Marijuana in the 1st Degree.
Carla Aletha Mims, Fresh Meadows, NY
Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic.
No. 056095; Cal. No. 21639
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 18 months actual suspension, revocation stayed, 2 years
probation, $2,500 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge of having
been convicted of Traveling in Interstate Commerce to Facilitate
Drug Trafficking, a federal felony.
Elizabeth Wheeler-Cosgrove, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Profession: Licensed Master Social Worker; Lic.
No. 055084; Cal. No. 22186
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: Indefinite actual suspension as set forth in consent
order application – upon licensee's return to practice, 2 years probation,
$750 fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to having been convicted
of Attempted Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the
7th Degree.
Veterinary Medicine
Myles Adrian Greenberg, White Plains, NY
Profession: Veterinarian; Lic. No. 002041; Cal.
No. 22036
Regents Action Date: June 21, 2005
Action: Application for consent order granted; Penalty
agreed upon: 2 years stayed suspension, 2 years probation, $1,000
fine.
Summary: Licensee admitted to the charge that while
treating a dog, who had a previous cardiac history, for a cough,
he should have commenced cardiac therapy or offered a referral to
an internal medicine specialist instead of treating the cough exclusively
as an infection.
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