The R.I. Department of Health’s Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline this week announced actions against three doctors:
* Dr. Norman Chou, a 1996 graduate of Brown Medical School who is an emergency medicine physician at Kent Hospital, was found in three cases to have “failed to conform to the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing medical practice.”
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Chou consented to be placed on two years probation; during that time, to enter into a formal mentorship program and limit his hours to those recommended by the American College of Emergency Physicians; and to pay a fine of $1,000.
* Dr. Thomas Carroll Platt, a resident of Michigan who holds an active Rhode Island license, also entered into an agreement with the board. Platt’s case was referred to the licensing board by its counterpart in Michigan, where he had been placed on probation until Dec. 5, 2005, “for felony convictions … relating to the possession of child sexually abusive material.”
Platt agreed to be placed on probation in Rhode Island from Feb. 3, 2005, to Dec. 31, 2006; to pay the board an administrative fee of $2,000, within 90 days of the order’s ratification, which took place Nov. 27; and, should he decide to return to Rhode Island, to notify the board in advance, in writing, and enter into a five-year monitoring and treatment contract (subject to possible review after three years) with its Physicians Health Committee.
* Dr. Alan Perl’s application for reinstatement was denied, after a hearing whose findings the board said Perl did not contest.
