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 Twiztidsage
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 Nashville doctor loses his license after drug bust...[TN/KY] 
#11931510 - 01/30/10 05:29 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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January 30th, 2010 - The Tennessean
Dr. Visuvalingam Vilvarajah lost his license to practice medicine in Tennessee for the second time in two decades.
The first was for a double-murder conviction. On Friday, it was for running an organized drug ring out of his Nashville office.
His wife and medical office partner, Dr. Mirielle Lalanne, also had her license suspended. The Board of Medical Examiners' ruling came after Vilvarajah and Lalanne were convicted on Jan. 10 in Kentucky of trafficking controlled narcotics. They entered an Alford plea, which does not admit guilt but acknowledges mounting evidence that they were supplying the drugs to at least 350 people in Harlan County, Ky. They were sentenced to unsupervised probation for four months.
Board members said they had to suspend the license swiftly since Vilvarajah and Lalanne have reapplied with the Drug Enforcement Agency for a certificate to once again be able to prescribe narcotic medication.
"It would imply he intends to rev his practice back up," Dr. Barrett Rosen said. "It is important for the board to take action to prevent any further violation that would be harmful to the health and welfare of the residents of the state of Tennessee."
The two Nashville doctors, who formerly operated an office on Charlotte Avenue, will have the chance to challenge the board's decision. Vilvarajah's hearing hasn't been scheduled. Lalanne will go before the panel on Tuesday.
An attorney for Vilvarajah, who did not speak to the board, said later that he did not want to comment on behalf of his client.
Vilvarajah's drug conviction made it easy for the board to suspend his license, said David Himmelreich, deputy general counsel for the Tennessee Department of Health. "It is easy to prove. We have a conviction," he said.
Vilvarajah's first license suspension was in May 1989 after a conviction for fatally shooting his wife and mother-in-law in his Germantown home.
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Edited by oxalic32 (12/19/10 12:48 PM)
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 Re: Nashville doctor loses his license after drug bust...[TN/KY] [Re: oxalic32]
#11933579 - 01/31/10 12:28 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah there was a lot of people where I live going there. I guess there was alot of sick fuckers around when the last scripts run out
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Re: Nashville doctor loses his license after drug bust...[TN/KY] [Re: MrKnightVision]
#11934730 - 01/31/10 09:09 AM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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 double murderer on the streets?? I want his lawyer's card.
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Re: Nashville doctor loses his license after drug bust...[TN/KY] [Re: smokescreen]
#11936460 - 01/31/10 02:41 PM (2 years, 3 months ago) |
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Part 2:
News accounts at the time revealed that Vilvarajah was living with his wife and his ex-wife, and he had hired a bodyguard to keep them separate.
The ex-wife lived in the West Tennessee house to watch their daughter.
When he found out the woman he was married to was about to leave him, he shot her and her mother in the head.
He got a restricted medical license in 1993, after he was paroled five years into a 20-year prison sentence.
In Tennessee, there is no law against giving a medical license to a convicted felon, said Andrea Turner, spokeswoman for the state health department.
"There is no law that would prevent a person from getting a license to practice simply because of a criminal conviction," Turner said.
All restrictions were removed from Vilvarajah's license in 2001, after he said having a restricted license was keeping potential patients from his practice.
None of the current members of the Board of Medical Examiners was on the panel for the first revocation or reinstatement.
Lalanne got her medical license in 1982 and had no record of discipline.
Metro police arrested Vilvarajah and Lalanne in February at their Nashville practice, Tennessee Professional Associates.
They were extradited to Kentucky on the charges of prescribing painkillers illegally to patients, including to a pregnant woman who gave birth to a drug-addicted baby.
Indictments charges that they knowingly provided prescriptions in large quantities that were not intended for patients' own use.
Among the painkillers they prescribed were Oxycontin and methadone. They were giving out the drugs from 2005 through November 2008.
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