A REHABILITATION medicine consultant from Taree has been found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct by the Civil and Administrative Tribunal of New South Wales in relation to 11 complaints that he had prescribed buprenorphine, fentanyl, hydromorphone, morphine, oxycodone, tapentadol or naloxone for a number of patients in his care.
He was also found to have failed to keep comprehensive medical records in relation to assessments of some patients and lacked insight as to their drug-seeking behaviour.
Dr Rajen Ragavan pleaded guilty to many but not all of the charges brought by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission.
Ragavan has been ordered to undertake training as well as submit to audits of his medical practice - caselaw.nsw.gov.au.
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