Texas Medical Board Files Complaint Against Physician Involved in Whistleblower Case
I’ve written before about the case of Anne Mitchell and Vicki Galle, RN’s who lost their jobs at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas after reporting concers to the Texas Medical Board about Rolando Arafiles, Jr, MD, one of the physcians on the medical staff. What happened next created a national firestorm, and is almost too strange to be believed.
Now, Medscape Today reports that the Texas Medical Board has filed a formal complaint against Dr. Arafiles.
The Texas Medical Board (TMB) has charged a family physician at the center of a nationally publicized whistle-blower caseinvolving 2 nurses with poor medical judgment, nontherapeutic prescribing, failure to maintain adequate records, overbilling, witness intimidation, and other violations.
The charges follow a report that the 2 nurses — Anne Mitchell, RN, and Vickilyn Galle, RN — made anonymously to the TMB last year about patient care rendered by Rolando Arafiles, Jr, MD, at Winkler County Memorial Hospital in Kermit, Texas, where the 2 nurses and Dr. Arafiles worked.
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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/725195
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