An 84-year-old doctor has been denied her request to regain
her medical license because she can't use a computer. Dr Anna Konopka
keeps her 300 patients' handwritten medical records in filing cabinets in a
160-year-old New Hampshire office where she has practiced for the last 30
years.
But the state challenged her record keeping, prescribing
practices and medical decisions citing her limited computer skills prevent
her from using the state's new mandatory electronic drug monitoring
program.
The program established in 2016, requires physicians who
prescribe opiates to register in an effort to combat the current crisis.
Konopka said she was pressured to surrender her license last
month but hoped to regain it as 30 of her patients wrote to Superior Court
Judge John Kissinger asking him to reconsider his ruling against their doctor.
Allegations against Konopka began three years ago with a complaint by other local physicians about her treatment of a seven-year-old patient with asthma.
She has been accused of leaving dosing levels of one
medication up to the parents and failing to treat the patient with daily
inhaled steroids.
Konopka, who agreed to a board reprimand in May, said she
never harmed the patient and the boy's mother disregarded her
instructions.
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