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Suspended Franklin doc claims he's victim of 13-year-old's retribution






A Franklin pediatrician said he will fight the suspension of his license and blames it on retribution from a 13-year-old against whom he took out a restraining order.

Dr. Mark Weinreb and his wife , Susan, the nurse and office manager at his practice, also disputed statements alleged in a report issued by the Board of Medicine.

"It's not as cut and dried as they say it is," Mrs. Weinreb told the New Hampshire Union Leader. The main accuser - who is 13 - is "not as innocent as they make her out to be," she said.

On Friday, media reports said the state Board of Medicine had suspended Weinreb. Reports said an investigation found he had prescribed 2,000 doses of oxycodone to a young patient over an 11-month period and 1,200 to the boy's brother over a nine-month period.

The report said the children's mother would text him via Facebook for refills.

The report also said Weinreb was Facebook friends with a girl, and Weinreb canceled her psychiatric medication after he became angry with a message she sent him, according to media reports . The report said Weinreb said he would only refill the medication if she apologized.

But the Weinrebs said Friday night that the state report does not tell the full story.

They said the girl has been suspended from middle school for hitting boys who won't return her blows.

Dr. Weinreb said he took out a restraining order against the teen after she sent him a Facebook message. In it, the girl threatened to come to his house and beat him with a baseball bat, he said.

"This was a really threatening situation initially. It was not a silly message. It was very threatening," he said.

The girl's mother worked at his practice, and the Weinrebs were about to fire her for breach of confidentiality, he said.

Weinreb said he and his wife socialized with the girl's parents a few times.

"I was friends with the family; she was part of the family. I didn't know she had mental health issues when I befriended the family on Facebook," he said.

Weinreb said he has hired a lawyer, Kenneth Bartholomew, and will challenge the suspension. He said he will ask for a postponement of a hearing scheduled for Wednesday.

As for the oxycodone prescriptions, Weinreb said he did not know the exact amount of doses prescribed. He said the boy had a bone disorder caused by leukemia that kept him in chronic pain.

"There was a medical indication for me to prescribe them," he said.
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