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Darien Pediatrician Fined Over Vaccine Gaffe
The Connecticut Medical Examining Board has placed the license of John M. Dubaz, of Darien Pediatric Associates, on probation until he completes the ethics course.
A Darien pediatrician has reportedly been fined $10,000 by the state Department of Public Health and must complete a course on ethics after he failed to follow proper protocol when he transferred flu vaccines from the Greenwich Hospital Pediatric Clinic to his private practice last year.
According to a report in the Stamford Advocate, the Connecticut Medical Examining Board has placed the license of John M. Dubaz, of , on probation until he completes the ethics course. Dubaz must also complete 40 hours of pro bono medical service within the next six months, the report states.
According to the report, in October 2010 Dubaz made arrangements to have 20 Fluzone vaccines transferred from the pediatric clinic to his office because he had run out. However he failed to fill out the paperwork necessary under state law to transfer the vaccines. Dubaz did not notify the Department of Public Health of the transfer until December 2010, the report states.
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Dubaz does not plan to contest the matter and has waived his right to a hearing, according to the report.
In the fall of 2009 a prompted some pediatrician's offices to and towns to hold .
