Doctor's License in Jeopardy?
A doctor who set up a medical clinic that CBS News exposed as a pill mill is now facing a formal complaint by the Texas Medical Board.
Video: Dr. Rodolfo Giraldi is a Texas physician who set up several pain clinics throughout the Houston area. One of his businesses was at the center of an investigative report that aired on the CBS Evening News back in May.
Inside the clinic, our hidden cameras caught a man who had no medical or physician assistant license illegally posing as a doctor approving prescriptions for powerful pain pills.(Click on the video box to the left to see Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian confront the man.)
According to the Texas Medical Board complaint, filed November 19, at another clinic owned by Dr. Giraldi medications were prescribed for "non-therapeutic" reasons. The complaint also says someone other than Dr. Giraldi would see patients and there was "inadequate medical records…to support prescriptions" and a lack of "adequate physical exams."
The complaint could result in Dr. Giraldi losing his medical license. CBS News was unable to reach Dr. Giraldi for comment.
Read The Texas Medical Board Complaint