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Sydney pharmacist Shelley Ross has received a six-month suspension from duty effective March 1 after she admitted prescribing apo-sulfatrim to a phoney patient in 2015.
In doing so she breached a previous remedial agreement dating from September 2015, that barred her from ordering, receiving or signing for narcotic medication including benzodiazepines.
In addition to this suspension, a disciplinary letter will be placed in Ross’s file and she must pay $2,500 to the Nova Scotia College of Pharmacists, plus $5,000 in costs. Ross must also complete, within the next six months, a NSCP jurisprudence exam.
Once she returns to work, she will face up to four inspections in the first 12 months.
Ross was the subject of a previous disciplinary action in 2014 when she was suspended for six months for writing fake prescriptions and taking benzodiazepines for her own use.
She was suspended for stealing thousands of pills and dispensing 160 fake prescriptions between February 2008, and March 2013. She was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and another $10,000 toward part of the board’s costs in this case.