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SUPPLEMENT/CONTINUATION
There were discrepancies
in the six
patients treated
with Sufenta by Dr. Fitzgerald in
October at Northwest Hospital
G.
There was apparently further investigation and depositions were taken. Letters were also written back and forth. The following is an excerpt from a letter from Dr. Janis Fitzgerald to Dr.
C., one of the doctors on the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners investigating her apparent drug abuse: “I
am physically unable to
practice
medicine at this time and do not expect this to change.”
There was
apparently an agreement between Dr. Fitzgerald and the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners that she would
discontinue practicing clinical medicine at that time and turn in her D.E.A. license number. She was to also undergo random drug testing. It appeared from reading the depositions that Dr. Fitzgerald never admitted to any type of drug use but agreed with the Board of Medical Examiners to turn in her D.E.A. license, not practice medicine, and to go for random drug tests.
The following are the dates of the random drug tests and the drugs that were found through lab analysis to be in her system during those times:
apparently had a prescription for Vicodines
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