Kids & Family
Rockwall Pediatrician Suspended Over Reports Of Bizarre Behavior
The doctor reportedly dropped a child and encouraged nurses to write prescriptions along with other questionable behaviors, KTVT reported.

ROCKWALL, TX — A North Texas pediatrician has been suspended after several reports of concerning behavior detailed in investigatory documents from the Texas Medical Board.
Dr. Kurt Pflieger, a doctor at Rockwall Pediatrics, was seen demonstrating strange behavior including yelling the word "Satan" during patient visits, repeatedly wearing the same sweatpants to work and praying aloud, KTVT reported.
The documents claim Pflieger also allegedly dropped a 2-year-old patient on his head while roughhousing with the child, KTVT wrote.
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“I’m glad that he’s getting a mandatory break, for sure,” Leslie Cook, a patient's mother, told the station as she left the office Tuesday. “And being the mother of a baby that I love so much… I would want him to see a doctor that’s well rested, happy and clear-headed.”
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