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The West Virginia Board of Medicine revoked the license of a former Raleigh General Hospital cardiologist because he performed scans he was not privileged to do.
Further, in a recent ruling, board members said Dr. Steven B. Hefter misrepresented to the hospital and to patients that he was “performing only those medical procedures that he had been given the authorization or privilege to do.”
Instead, he was performing peripheral angiographies during cardiac catheterizations.
The medical board said Hefter also failed to get consent from the majority of patients on whom he performed the catheterizations and failed to keep written records justifying treatment.
Hefter, whose current address with the board is Birmingham, Ala., also worked as a cardiologist at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and at Summersville Memorial, Pocahontas Memorial and Summers County hospitals.
In other recent Board of Medicine business, the board:
* Set a disciplinary hearing for March 16 to 18, 2005, in a matter involving Dr. Iraj Derakhshan, a Charleston neurologist. The board investigated Derakhshan after Charleston Area Medical Center placed certain conditions on his privileges. Also, the board received complaints from two of Derakhshan’s patients regarding the use of Oxycontin.
* Set a hearing for Feb. 1 and 2 to determine whether the board should take disciplinary action against the license of Dr. Katherine Anne Hoover of Lost Creek.
* Set a hearing for April 6 regarding the license of Dr. Bradley Jess Richardson of Huntington, an internal medicine specialist, on a complaint that he videotaped a patient without her consent.
* Publicly reprimanded Dr. Christopher E. Ervin, an emergency medicine specialist whose address is Washington, D.C. The board said there were problems with notations of child support arrearage amounts on his license application.
* Put Dr. Douglas P. Bosack on probation for three years after his Ohio license was revoked, then reinstated, after he underwent treatment for alcohol dependency.
* Placed certain restrictions on the license of Dr. Susanne Choby for two years, including abstaining completely from the use of alcohol. Choby practices medicine in Morgantown.
* Publicly reprimanded Dr. Charles W. Snyder, Parkersburg psychiatrist, for failing to accurately report his continuing medical education to the board.
Contact writer Therese Smith at [email protected] or 348- 4874.
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