Physician assistant loses Maine license

A physician assistant who formerly lived and practiced in Maine has had his license to practice medicine here permanently revoked.

Douglas M. Morong, formerly of Sebec and currently living in Tennessee, was investigated in December 2006 by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine after the board received information that he had inappropriately prescribed and obtained medications. The board suspended his license during the investigation after concluding that the practitioner presented an imminent danger to his patients.

In a consent agreement signed Jan. 9, Morong neither admitted nor denied the basis of the complaint against him, but conceded that the licensing board “could reasonably conclude that fraud and deceit in the provision of medical services, substance abuse and inappropriate prescribing practices had occurred,” according to a statement released this week by the board.

The board previously reprimanded Morong in 2003 for signing a physician’s name to a care plan without the physician’s permission.

Before leaving Maine, Morong practiced in several settings, including the emergency room at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, a private medical practice in Milo, a walk-in clinic in Orono, and the Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth.