THE NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has prosecuted medical practitioner Dr Lei Min Chen over "inappropriate 'off-label' prescribing of Ketamine".
The complaint considered his treatment of 21 patients who presented to the Aura Medical Corporation in Sydney between Nov 2014 and May 2015.
A decision last month found all the particulars proven, with the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruling that the conduct amounted to unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct.
He was found to have prescribed Ketamine without authority and inappropriately prescribed the drug as a 'takeaway' dose.
A further hearing on 24 and 25 Jul will consider protective orders.
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