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For immediate release:
February 18,
2011
(11-024)
Contacts:
Mike Farrell, Medical Quality Assurance Commission 509-329-2186
Gordon MacCracken,
Communications Office
360-236-4072
Issaquah physician’s medical license immediately suspended
Doctor’s active addiction makes him unsafe to practice
medicine, charges say
OLYMPIA
¾ The Medical Quality Assurance Commission has immediately
suspended the medical license of Issaquah physician William L. Lanzer
(MD00022061). Lanzer’s recent relapse into alcohol and substance abuse makes him
unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety, charges say.
Lanzer cannot practice medicine in Washington until the
charges are resolved. He has 20 days to respond to the charges and to request a
hearing.
The charges say Lanzer has had a long-term addiction to
alcohol and controlled substances. He has been voluntarily monitored for
substance abuse by the commission’s approved program since 2005. Since then, the
charges say, Lanzer relapsed by repeatedly returning to active abuse of alcohol
and controlled substances. Lanzer was finally discharged from the monitoring
program on November 22, 2010, because of another relapse, according to the
charging documents.
Legal documents in this case are available by calling
360-236-4700 or online by clicking the link to “Provider Credential Search” on
the agency home page (www.doh.wa.gov).
The Medical Quality Assurance Commission protects public
health and safety by assuring the competency and quality of physicians and
physician assistants. The commission establishes and monitors qualifications for
licensure, and consistently enforces practice standards and professional conduct
through discipline and continuing education.
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It's not that I don't know docs don't get hooked-they're as human as the rest of us. I medicated with alcohol until my RSD was diagnosed properly. But I stopped and only smoke bud with my pain doc's permission! This dick-off was going to operate on me on September 13, 2009, but suddenly "Emergency medical leave" and then "Extended medical leave" as the practice strung me along for months while my diseased hip (really just the left, but trusting him, he said both needed simultaneous surgery. It sounded funny then-now I know why--the signs were there: standoffish office staff, a nurse who really looked like she wanted to be somewhere else--and he never got close enough to me that I would see the bloodshot eyes in his last published photo, the rosy red cheeks, from broken blood vessels under the skin (alcohol use) in the chin, and tip of the nose as well-that I noticed, but figured, "Cool, he overcame his demons," after all, he was a practicing surgeon.
When other docs found out I'd seen him-they wouldn't touch me. I had to change hospitals and ended up with good operative care, postop care and shitty diagnosis and care-or lack thereof of my RSD until I found PCW.
And Lanzer's former practice is still billing me for services rendered. Fucking send me to collection-this is one bill I will not pay. He could have soberly handled things, and saved me from a grossly shortened lifespan due to severe pain of now full body RSD.
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