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News Release — February 14, 2003
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
February 14, 2003
Medical Board Accusation Leads to Surrender of
Los Angeles Physician's Medical License
SACRAMENTO—Facing a formal Accusation of wrongdoing by the Medical Board of California, Thousand Oaks physician Russell Manthey, M.D. has agreed to surrender his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was ordered on January 27, 2003 and became effective on February 3, 2003.
The Medical Board accused Manthey of being grossly negligent in the preparation of medical records for seven patients seeking ophthalmic care and treatment. The standard of care in the ophthalmic community for any patient considering eye surgery is to perform a thorough eye examination. In the case of seven patients considered by Manthey, he allegedly failed to record the completion of, and/or perform a thorough eye examination prior to surgical procedures on, six of the patients. With respect to three of the seven patients, Manthey allegedly maintained records which misrepresented the actual surgical procedures performed.
Collectively, the Medical Board alleged that Manthey violated Business and Professions Code sections: 2234(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) for unprofessional conduct; 2261 for knowingly making or signing a certificate or document that falsely represented a state of facts; and 2266 for failure to maintain adequate and accurate records relating to patient services.
Manthey admitted that he failed to maintain adequate medical records of patients and agreed that cause existed for discipline and the surrender of his license to practice medicine in California.
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