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HARRISBURG — The state Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs reported Thursday a Wyoming County dentist and a suspended Mountain Top doctor were among the people who received disciplinary actions last month.
The state Board of Dentistry acted on the license of Sare Mae Rhodes, who has a practice in Tunkhannock. The board accepted the automatic suspension of her license and stayed it in favor of one year probation, retroactive to June 4 of this year. She also was placed on no less than three years probation for another violation and must serve it concurrently to the one year term.
Rhodes, 37, of Dallas, pleaded guilty to writing prescriptions for Oxycodone for drug-dependent friends and family and refusing to keep medical records for the prescriptions she wrote. Her plea agreement dismissed 17 of 20 charges filed against her.
Last December Wyoming Count Judge Brendan Vanston imposed a sentence of 81 days to 23½ months in prison. The judge gave her credit for serving the minimum sentence in inpatient treatment and immediately paroled her, ordering her to serve the balance of her sentence on probation.
The board took action based on the fact Rhodes “was found guilty of a crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or was found guilty of a felony in violation of the laws of this Commonwealth or any other state; and failed to keep adequate records when prescribing, administering and dispensing controlled substances.”
The state Board of Osteopathic Medicine indefinitely suspended the license of Mark A. Gonsky, 62, of Glen Summit, retroactive to Aug. 11, 2014. The board had previously suspended it in 2013 after an investigation determined he presented “a clear and immediate danger to the public health and safety.”
The board again took action against Gonsky last month “for being unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of illness, drunkenness, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, chemicals, or other type of material, or as a result of a mental or physical condition.”
Last September Gonsky pleaded guilty to making terroristic threats and harassment. Luzerne County Judge Fred Pierantoni sentenced Gonsky to one to 18 months in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, but gave him credit for approximately 200 days of confinement and paroled him.
In another action, the state Board of Barber Examiners suspended the license of William Jones Barbershop, Wilkes-Barre “for failing to pay a previously imposed civil penalty.”