| Lynnwood dentist's license suspended
The state has suspended the license of a Lynnwood dentist, alleging that he prescribed 3,100 Oxycodone tablets for one patient in a 29-month period.
The action, announced Tuesday, was taken against George Whitehead by the state's Dental Quality Assurance Commission, which disciplines dentists. Whitehead has been licensed in Washington since 1978.
In its order to summarily or immediately suspend Whitehead's license, the commission alleged that the 3,100 doses of the narcotic were prescribed to a patient between June 2004 and November 2006.
The patient had received eight dental implants.
The commission also alleged that Whitehead was practicing even though his license had previously been suspended in February for six months, until Aug.
Suspended Dentist's Patient Explains Ordeal
CBS 5 Investigates spent more than five months this year looking into the practice of a Valley dentist who had racked up more than 70 complaints. After CBS 5's investigation aired, the state temporarily suspended Dr. David Naisbitt's license. Naisbitt sold his practice and left the state. .
Tusk prank pays off for jokester oral surgeon
An oral surgeon who temporarily implanted fake boar tusks in his assistant's mouth as a practical joke and got sued for it has gotten the state's high court to back up his gag. Dr. Robert Woo of Auburn had put in the phony tusks while the woman was under anesthesia for a different procedure. He took them out before she awoke, but he first shot photos that eventually made it around the office. The employee, Tina Alberts, felt so humiliated when she saw the pictures that she quit and sued her boss. Woo's insurance company, Fireman's Fund, refused to cover the claim, saying the practical joke was intentional and not a normal business activity his insurance policy covered, so Woo settled out of court. He agreed to pay Alberts $250,000, then he sued his insurers.
KU prof among hundreds demanding hearings on fluoride
A wide-ranging group of physicians, environmentalists, dentists and scientists — including a Kansas University professor emeritus — have called on Congress to stop water fluoridation. The group of 600 professionals said congressional hearings should be held because recent reports indicate fluoridation has no benefits and may pose health risks. Most water supplies in the United States, including Lawrence, have fluoride added in an effort to reduce tooth decay. But some say fluoride isn't safe. “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology," said Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine. “It's really obsolete." Albert W. Burgstahler, professor emeritus of chemistry at KU, has been a longtime critic of fluoride.
h0215 BC-TEN-MariasMission 08-13 1019 8/13/2007 Maria Sharapova plans 1st trip back to Chernobyl since family fled
Eds: Moving on general news and sports services. AP Photo NY154, NY155 By BETH HARRIS AP Sports Writer CARSON, Calif. (AP) -- Maria Sharapova travels the world as the highest-paid female athlete, cocooning in fancy hotels, dining at swanky restaurants and indulging her love of shoes. Yet there's one place the 20-year-old tennis superstar's journeys have never taken her -- the region devastated 21 years ago by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster. Sharapova's mother, Yelena, was pregnant with her only child when the plant in Ukraine exploded and spewed radioactive clouds over the western Soviet Union and northern Europe. "A lot of families were moving, but not a lot of them could because they didn't really know where to go," Sharapova told The Associated Press.
Health care expands
Premier Urgent Care/Badolato Family Health in Suntree is expanding its hours and its location as the area continues to attract new medical facilities and services. Premier Urgent Care, which has been in an 8,950-square-foot facility in the Centre at Suntree shopping plaza since 2001, is expanding by 4,400 square feet and adding at least five people to its current staff of 47. The walk-in facility, a physician-run urgent care center with doctors always on site, is holding an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. A grand re-opening is scheduled Monday. Doctors see walk-in and scheduled patients. "Premier Urgent Care has been meeting the needs of Brevard residents by seeing and treating patients without an appointment," said Stephen
Badolato, one of the clinic's owners.
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