While an Albany physician had already been charged with forcibly touching two of his employees and is on probation for negligence, he has been arrested for covering up for his wife in a phony prescription-writing scheme that she executed while working as his office manager, as reported by CBS 6 Albany.
Dr. K.G.'s psychiatric practice, the Physco-Pharmacology of Albany, is in Colonie. He is currently seeing patients while on probation with the State Health Department. His wife, J.G., allegedly wrote the false prescriptions naming herself as the Physician Assistant for the office.
Both have been charged with possession of a forged instrument. J.G. is also facing other charges, including DWAI.
When a pharmacist recognized J.G. trying to fill a fake prescription he called her husband to confirm it. According to Lt. B.W with the Colonie Police Department, Dr. K.G. "verified the script when in fact that was a stolen and forged prescription. We were able to identify (J.G.) as well as Dr. (K.G.) who was actually even in the store when he made the phone call back to the pharmacy to verify the script was valid."
On July 2 J.G. was pulled over by police during a traffic stop. Forged scripts and pills were located in her car, and she was charged with DWAI.
According to Lt. B.W., being arrested did not slow down the illegal prescriptions from being filed. The Lt. said that J.G.'s friends "…were using scripts provided by (J.G.) that were forged, going to at least three pharmacies that we know of."
J.G., Dr. K.G. and one other man were picked up and arrested on July 8. On July 10 Dr. K.G. had returned to his practice, and according to reporters, was seeing patients.
The previous case against Dr. K.G. involves two former employees that claim he forced himself on them in a room in the back of his practice. Dr. K.G. is headed for trial later this year on those charges.
Also, Dr. K.G. was put on probation by the State Health Department for 3 years due to 36 counts of negligence brought forth by the Board for Professional Medical Conduct. Those issues include prescribing inappropriate and excessive medications, failure to monitor patients on medications and failure to keep proper records.
Dr. K.G. admitted to four of the charges and was fined $20,000.
Lt. B.W. commented, "He is a respected member of the medical community, at least he was, however in this case, this is now the second time that we've had the unfortunate opportunity to arrest him for criminal charges, one is pending those are misdemeanors, this is a felony, a little more serious, hopefully at the end of the day, justice will be served in this case and if he's no longer fit to be practicing, hopefully that's addressed as well."
Another physician must supervise Dr. K.G. at all times while he continues to work and maintain his license. The Board of Professional Medical Conduct will reevaluate his case if he is convicted.
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