2 reprimanded by state medical board

The Board of Licensure in Medicine this week revoked the right of a Caribou physician assistant to prescribe drugs following improper prescription practices.

The board also denied a license renewal to a former Bangor neurologist.

The cases involved physician assistant James E. Wilson and Dr. Igor Stojanov.

Wilson, who began practicing in Maine in August 2000, had prescribed narcotics and benzodiazepines for himself in the names of a friend and a brother, according to a consent agreement between him and the board.

In the agreement, he “admitted that he improperly wrote prescriptions in order to obtain controlled substances for himself in order to self-medicate. He was personally using the drugs he obtained to treat anxiety, insomnia and depression.”

Wilson agreed to work only in a practice setting where a supervising physician is physically present. Wilson and his physician must submit quarterly reports confirming compliance with the agreement. And Wilson surrendered his Drug Enforcement Agency registration that allows him to prescribe narcotics.

In the second case, Stojanov, now of Augusta, Ga., requested that his license be renewed. The board preliminarily denied the renewal, saying the doctor had not received the counseling mandated in a July 2000 consent agreement.

In that agreement with the board, he stated he had courted a female patient beginning in August 1998, just a month after receiving his Maine license. He called her at home and at work, asked her to accompany him on trips and wrote letters in which he expressed his love for her. He also hugged, kissed and caressed her and did not charge her for all her appointments, the consent agreement states.

Stojanov denied he initiated the romantic involvement although he acknowledged the conduct was unprofessional and inappropriate, the agreement states.

As part of the agreement, Stojanov agreed to a fine and a yearlong probation during which he had to obtain treatment or counseling. A chaperone had to be provided whenever a female patient was examined.

Stojanov has until mid-January to appeal the board’s denial of his license renewal.