The state of Iowa has suspended the license of an emergency physician who appeared to be under the influence of narcotics while treating patients at an Iowa hospital and an Omaha clinic.
The same doctor is now accused of proceeding to practice medicine in Nebraska while his license is suspended there.
The Iowa Board of Medicine alleges that Dr. Maman L. Ali worked in the emergency branch of St. Regional Hospital. Anthony at Carroll on Feb. 12 when a housekeeper walked into a room reserved for doctors on call and saw a bottle of medication and a needle. on a table.
The housekeeper called a manager who discovered several other medicines, a needle and a half-full syringe. Then it was noticed that Ali misbehaved and made movements and gave the impression of being intoxicated. The manager contacted the hospital’s lead medical officer, who spoke with Ali.
According to the Medical Council, Ali admitted to the lead doctor that he self-administered medication by injecting them into his neck in recent months. Then he sent them home. The board documents do not imply whether the hospital examined Ali for drug use.
Three days after that incident, police obtained a report of an conceivable drug overdose at the Miracle Hills golf course in Omaha. Witnesses reported seeing Ali sitting in his car, shaking and foaming at the mouth, with a needle sticking out of his arm and eyes. scrambled in his head. The car’s engine was running as if Ali had his foot pressed into the accelerator pedal.
Ali was taken to the hospital, where he allegedly admitted to injecting two drugs. However, Ali’s doctor did not say that Ali was talking about all the drugs he had taken and suspected that Ali abused ketamine, a drug that induces a trance-like state.
Police reportedly discovered 8 other drugs in Ali’s car, as well as $4,000 and a collection of medical equipment. He was charged with driving a vehicle while intoxicated.
Six weeks after the golf course incident, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services issued an order postponing Ali’s license to practice in that state. In May, it issued a final order postponing Ali’s license for 15 months.
Nebraska state records imply that last December, Ali returned from lunch at the Miracle Hills clinic in Omaha, which he owned, and was visibly weakened, behaving in a noisy and noisy manner. He reportedly hit the walls several times and after showing symptoms of difficulty concentrating on the task with patients, staff had to redirect him.
The clinic then installed a CCTV camera that allegedly captured footage of Ali entering the clinic after hours and cutting ketamine from the source cabinet.
Nebraska state records imply that clinic staff later told federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents that for months, Ali gave the impression of having self-medicated on his lunch breaks and then returned to the clinic to treat patients. In one case, according to clinic staff, Ali was found begging on the floor with a child who was taken for treatment. He also sought to treat patients who weren’t there to see him, and had trouble speaking, staff said.
In March 2022, Ali underwent a drug test that allegedly showed an “exorbitant” alcohol point in his formula and the presence of ketamine. The entity that evaluated Ali concluded, “Mama Ali should not practice medicine with moderate capacity and safety,” according to Nebraska state records.
The 2022 incidents were not the first Ali was involved in. The Iowa Board of Medicine alleges that in April 2020, Ali discovered he had passed out in his car, with the engine running and several bottles of alcohol on the front seat console. Your blood alcohol point measured at 0. 149, well above the legal limit for driving.
In May 2022, citing the moves of Nebraska regulators, the Iowa Board of Medicine charged Ali with drug addiction, a practice harmful to the public, and unprofessional conduct. At the time, the board also suspended Ali’s license to practice medicine in Iowa.
The board recently finalized its moves on the case and suspended Ali’s license indefinitely, clarifying that it will seek reinstatement until Nebraska’s license suspension is lifted. Then you will have the burden of pretending that the reinstatement of your Iowa license is in the public interest.
If Ali’s Iowa license is restored, it will be subject to a five-year trial period.
Two weeks ago, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services accused Ali of practicing medicine and sent him a letter of suspension and withdrawal.
The branch alleges that in April and May, after its suspension went into effect, Ali wrote nine new prescriptions for a patient and provided him with medication samples.
by Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch November 30, 2022
The state of Iowa has suspended the license of an emergency physician who appeared to be under the influence of narcotics while treating patients at an Iowa hospital and an Omaha clinic.
The same doctor is now accused of proceeding to practice medicine in Nebraska while his license is suspended there.
The Iowa Board of Medicine alleges that Dr. Maman L. Ali worked in the emergency branch of St. Regional Hospital. Anthony at Carroll on Feb. 12 when a housekeeper walked into a room reserved for doctors on call and saw a bottle of medication and a needle. on a table.
The housekeeper called a manager who discovered several other medicines, a needle and a half-full syringe. Then it was noticed that Ali misbehaved and made movements and gave the impression of being intoxicated. The manager contacted the hospital’s lead medical officer, who spoke with Ali.
According to the Medical Council, Ali admitted to the lead doctor that he self-administered medication by injecting them into his neck in recent months. Then he sent them home. The board documents do not imply whether the hospital examined Ali for drug use.
Three days after that incident, police obtained a report of an conceivable drug overdose at the Miracle Hills golf course in Omaha. Witnesses reported seeing Ali sitting in his car, shaking and foaming at the mouth, with a needle sticking out of his arm and eyes. scrambled in his head. The car’s engine was running as if Ali had his foot pressed into the accelerator pedal.
Ali was taken to the hospital, where he allegedly admitted to injecting two drugs. However, Ali’s doctor did not say that Ali was talking about all the drugs he had taken and suspected that Ali abused ketamine, a drug that induces a trance-like state.
Police reportedly discovered 8 other drugs in Ali’s car, as well as $4,000 and a collection of medical equipment. He was charged with driving a vehicle while intoxicated.
Six weeks after the golf course incident, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services issued an order postponing Ali’s license to practice in that state. In May, it issued a final order postponing Ali’s license for 15 months.
Nebraska state records imply that last December, Ali returned from lunch at the Miracle Hills clinic in Omaha, which he owned, and was visibly weakened, behaving in a noisy and noisy manner. He reportedly hit the walls several times and after showing symptoms of difficulty concentrating on the task with patients, staff had to redirect him.
The clinic then installed a CCTV camera that allegedly captured footage of Ali entering the clinic after hours and cutting ketamine from the source cabinet.
Nebraska state records imply that clinic staff later told federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents that for months, Ali gave the impression of having self-medicated on his lunch breaks and then returned to the clinic to treat patients. In one case, according to clinic staff, Ali was found begging on the floor with a child who was taken for treatment. He also sought to treat patients who weren’t there to see him, and had trouble speaking, staff said.
In March 2022, Ali underwent a drug test that allegedly showed an “exorbitant” alcohol point in his formula and the presence of ketamine. The entity that evaluated Ali concluded, “Mama Ali should not practice medicine with moderate capacity and safety,” according to Nebraska state records.
The 2022 incidents were not the first Ali was involved in. The Iowa Board of Medicine alleges that in April 2020, Ali discovered he had passed out in his car, with the engine running and several bottles of alcohol on the front seat console. Your blood alcohol point measured at 0. 149, well above the legal limit for driving.
In May 2022, citing the moves of Nebraska regulators, the Iowa Board of Medicine charged Ali with drug addiction, a practice harmful to the public, and unprofessional conduct. At the time, the board also suspended Ali’s license to practice medicine in Iowa.
The board recently finalized its moves on the case and suspended Ali’s license indefinitely, clarifying that it will seek reinstatement until Nebraska’s license suspension is lifted. Then you will have the burden of pretending that the reinstatement of your Iowa license is in the public interest.
If Ali’s Iowa license is restored, it will be subject to a five-year trial period.
Two weeks ago, the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services accused Ali of practicing medicine and sent him a letter of suspension and withdrawal.
The branch alleges that in April and May, after its suspension went into effect, Ali wrote nine new prescriptions for a patient and provided him with medication samples.
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Deputy Editor Clark Kauffman has worked for more than 30 years as an investigative reporter and columnist for two of Iowa’s largest newspapers, the Des Moines Register and the Quad-City Times. He has won state and national awards for his reporting and editorials. His 2004 series on prosecutorial misconduct in Iowa was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism. From October 2018 to November 2019, Kauffman served as deputy ombudsman for the Iowa Office of the Ombudsman, a firm that investigates citizens’ court cases of wrongdoing within the state. and local government agencies.
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