| | Physician Last Name: | Dunphy |
| | Physician First Name: | Patrick |
| | Physician Middle Name: | Admiral |
| | Address: | Address redacted |
| | License Number: | 013920 |
| | License Type: | PA |
| | Year of Birth: |
1983
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| | Effective Date: | 03/14/2022 |
| | Action Description for DOH Webpage: | License suspension for twenty-four months, stayed in full. The physician assistants New York State license is permanently limited to preclude prescribing, dispensing, ordering, and/or administering of any prescription medication for family members, friends, or colleagues. Before resuming to practice as a physician assistant in New York State, they must provide thirty days advanced written notice to the Director (Director) of the Office of Professional Medical Conduct, receive the Director’s approval and may be subject to additional conditions imposed by the Director. The physician assistant must also successfully complete, to the satisfaction of the Director, the terms and conditions of the January 10, 2020, New Mexico Medical Board Order and all subsequent agreements and also successfully complete the contract with the New Mexico Health Professional Wellness Program. |
| | Misconduct Description for DOH Webpage: | The physician assistant did not contest the charge of committing professional misconduct by having been disciplined by the New Mexico Medical Board (NMMB) for allegations of on one or more occasions obtaining unauthorized prescriptions for controlled substances for himself and/or someone else; prescribing controlled substances for another medical provider without adequate documented medical justification; prescribing controlled substances to another medical provider without first obtaining a prescription monitoring program (PMP) report; not maintaining proper medical records for one or more persons to whom they prescribed one or more controlled substances; using one or more controlled substances without adequate documented medical justification; being a defendant in a 2016 criminal action and not reporting that action to the NMMB; being a defendant in the 2018 criminal action giving rise to the NMMB’s investigation and case and not reporting that action to the NMMB in a timely manner; not cooperating with NMMB investigators; on one or more occasions, when the physician assistant was not scheduled to work, arriving at the hospital emergency room where they worked appearing to be impaired; and the physician assistant was being treated with opioids for chronic pain but did not comply with the requirements the NMMB imposes on practitioners being treated for chronic pain with opioids. |
| | License Limitations or Conditions for DOH Webpage: | The physician assistants New York State license is permanently limited to preclude prescribing, dispensing, ordering, and/or administering of any prescription medication for family members, friends, or colleagues. Before resuming to practice as a physician assistant in New York State, they must provide thirty days advanced written notice to the Director (Director) of the Office of Professional Medical Conduct, receive the Director’s approval and may be subject to additional conditions imposed by the Director. The physician assistant must also successfully complete, to the satisfaction of the Director, the terms and conditions of the January 10, 2020, New Mexico Medical Board Order and all subsequent agreements and also successfully complete the contract with the New Mexico Health Professional Wellness Program. |
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