Southington Doctor Fined for Improperly Prescribing Painkillers to Wife, Employee

A Southington doctor was fined $5,000 and placed on probation after he improperly prescribed powerful painkillers to his wife and an employee.

Dr. Alkesh Patel prescribed his wife injectable Dilaudid, a narcotic painkiller, seven times to treat her migraine headaches, but didn’t maintain proper records, according to the Connecticut Health I-Team.

The state Medical Examining Board also found he prescribed the same painkiller to an employee 14 times without maintaining proper records.

Read the full C-HIT report here, including a story about how a New London doctor cut the ligaments off a woman’s uterus instead of her fallopian tubes.

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