Commonwealth Suspends Medical License of Popular Pediatrician

The state suspended the license to practice medicine for a popular Framingham pediatrician.

The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine summarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Robert P. Lindeman, finding ”he is an immediate and serious threat to the public health, safety, and welfare.”

The Board alleges Dr. Lindeman “failed to meet the standard of care when treating four patients, issued prescriptions to several individuals not in the usual course of his medical practice, and failed to properly maintain several medical records,” according to a release.

He was ordered to immediately stop practicing medicine on Dec. 17.

Dr. Lindeman has the right to appeal the suspension to the Division of Administrative Law Appeals within seven days of Dec. 17.

Patients of Dr. Linderman began receiving letters Christmas week, that he could not practice medicine but the letter did not state the reasons why.

Dr. Linderman has owned and operated a private pediatrics practice - Natick Pediatrics - since 2002.

According to court documents, Dr. Lindeman had a patient who died, in 2002.

In 2007, he was involved in a civil trial in Suffolk County Coutry involving a wrongful death suit that alleged Dr. Lindeman failed to diagnose that Jaymes Binns, 12, had diabetes in March of 2002, according to court documents. Six weeks later, the Dorchester boy died of diabetic ketoacidosis, according to court records.

The civil case against Dr. Lindeman was settled privately in May 2007. No public details are available.

The suspension of his license has nothing to do with that 2002 death. Details on Dr. Lindeman’s “failure to meet the standard of care for four patients” were not available, when this report was published.

Lindeman, who lives in Brookline, is board-certified in general pediatrics. His now Framingham-based practice focuses on childhood and adolescent health care, with a specialty in diseases of the lung, such as asthma and chronic cough.

He earned his undergraduate degree at Yale University.Dr. Lindeman graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1994 and has been licensed to practice medicine in Massachusetts since 1999.

He completed his medical training at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and was associated with a general pediatrics practice on the South Shore before being recruited by Metro West Medical Center, to establish a pediatrics and pediatric pulmonary practice in Natick, according to his profile on Natick Pediatrics. The practice is now located in the Lincoln Medical Building in Framingham.

He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.