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SUPPLEMENT/CONTINUATION
FL0520300/Clearwater Police Department
Report No.
95-29 158
Offense
Death Investigation
Date of Report
There were discrepancies in the six patients treated with Sufenta by Dr. Fitzgerald in October at Northwest Hospital
between the medical records and the drugs signed out.
The patients were S., F., B., F., Ba., and
G.
There was apparently further investigation and depositions were taken. Letters were also written back and forth. The following is an excerpt from a letter from Dr. Janis Fitzgerald to Dr. C., one of the doctors on the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners investigating her apparent drug abuse: “I am physically unable to practice medicine at this time and do not expect this to change.”

There was apparently an agreement between Dr. Fitzgerald and the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners that she would discontinue practicing clinical medicine at that time and turn in her D.E.A. license number. She was to also undergo random drug testing. It appeared from reading the depositions that Dr. Fitzgerald never admitted to any type of drug use but agreed with the Board of Medical Examiners to turn in her D.E.A. license, not practice medicine, and to go for random drug tests.

The following are the dates of the random drug tests and the drugs that were found through lab analysis to be in her system during those times:

1)
February 5, 1993, Hydrocordone was found in her system. She
apparently had a prescription for Vicodines

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