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News Release — August 1, 2007
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
August 1, 2007
Medical Board of California obtains
suspension of Murrieta physician's license
SACRAMENTO—The Medical Board of California has obtained a practice suspension on the medical license of Joel Stanley Dreyer, M.D., of Murrieta, effective July 30, 2007. Judge Paul Dickerson of the Superior Court of the County of Riverside signed the Order in response to a request by Deputy Attorney General Harinder Kapur, on behalf of the Medical Board. The board's request was filed pursuant to Penal Code section 23 which permits a licensing agency, in the interest of protecting the public, to make an appearance before the court in a criminal action against its licensee and to recommend that the licensee be prohibited from practicing medicine.
On July 24, 2007, Dreyer was charged with five counts of issuing false prescriptions in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11153(a). On four separate occasions beginning in February 2007, undercover investigators for both the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Medical Board of California, went to Dreyer's office posing as patients. In each instance, the undercover investigators were asked by Dreyer what they wanted and he proceeded to write prescriptions for the requested medication without taking a history or any type of physical examination. On two of the four controlled buys by investigators, Dreyer was aware that the medication was not for the patient that he was seeing, rather for the patient's boyfriend. In each instance, Dreyer received $100 cash for each of the prescriptions.
Dreyer's medical license will remain suspended pending adjudication of the criminal matter.
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