Doctor Facing Drug Charges

A former Clearfield County doctor is being accused of obtaining controlled substances fraudulently from his cancer patients.

According to the state attorney general’s office, 43-year-old Amer Khouri of Erie was the attending physician at the Clearfield Hospital Cancer Center when he prescribed doses of Fentanyl in varying strengths to patients fighting cancer and recalled the prescriptions citing dosage error.

Attorney General Tom Corbett says that in many instances Khouri prescribed the drug to his patients and then contacted them after the prescription was filled saying he had "made a mistake" and prescribed the "wrong strength."

The charges state that Khouri instructed patients to deliver the drugs to his office by knocking on the back door to his personal office. Once the medication was delivered, Khouri wrote each patient several new prescriptions, which were attached to a coupon. The coupon served as payment to the pharmacy for that prescription.

Corbett said that following his February 2007 dismissal from the Clearfield Hospital, more than $44,000 worth of controlled and non-controlled substances were found in Khouri's office.

http://attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=5246

photo provided by the attorney general's office

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