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North Andover Doctor Fined For Prescribing Medicine To Dog: Report
A North Andover psychiatrist has been reprimanded and fined for prescribing medicine to a patient's dog, according to a report.
NORTH ANDOVER, MA — A North Andover psychiatrist was reprimanded and fined by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine after he prescribed medicine to a patient's dog, according to WWLP 22 News.
Jonathan S. Weiss has been licensed to practice medicine in the state since 1984 and has a private practice in North Andover.
He was fined $5,000 for wrongfully issuing a prescription to a patient's dog, which was not written in the usual course of his practice.
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