THE NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) has successfully brought GP Kooshyar Karimi before the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal accusing him of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct.
Karimi was alleged to have been associated with creating and using a false registration certificate to obtain Botox from a pharmaceutical company, in the form of a letter on Medicare letterhead making claims about his prescribing rights.
The HCCC also alleged that during a period in which he was unregistered, the defendant had prescribed for 12 patients, some of whom were drug dependent or on opioid treatment programs.
He also allegedly prescribed in the name of staff members, who were not his patients, to obtain stock for the practice.
The Tribunal found him guilty of falsifying documents, prescribing whilst unregistered, and inappropriate and unauthorised prescribing, cumulatively amounting to conduct of such a serious nature as to justify the suspension of his registration.
The court ordered his reprimand, suspension of his registration for six months and subsequent registration to be subject to certain conditions around Schedule 8 or Schedule 4D drugs, practice restrictions and supervision.
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