Creve Coeur doctor facing charges abandons his practice, leaves state

Dr. Alexander Kalk, a family physician from Creve Coeur, has closed his practice and left the state as he faces charges of trashing patient records, sending threatening e-mails, not paying his staff and violating drug laws, among others.

[What The Heck]

Why was this obviously impaired physician not reprimanded a while ago? The Medical Board of the Healing Arts looked the other way....

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What The Heck wrote:

Why was this obviously impaired physician not reprimanded a while ago? The Medical Board of the Healing Arts looked the other way....

The Board of Healing Arts failed to do any meaningful investigation for years, and still now. The hearing scheduled for June 17 was canceled because they are working on a compromise. COMPROMISE? There should be no questions asked, this Dr. should not be allowed to treat another patient. Information was provided to the Board for several years including tips about past employees who had information regarding inappropriate touching of patients (minors), illegal billing, medicare fraud, illegal drug dispensing etc. The so called hearings are a joke, they do not investigate, no one even knows about the hearings. Past employees, various local, state and federal agencies investigating this Dr, several local prosecutors, etc etc, none of these people were even contacted although the Board was given information about these sources of information and the alleged activities of this Dr. The red flags were not only there, rockets were going off. This Dr. is a danger and he should have been suspended a long time ago. The public is not being protected by this Board and they should be held accountable for letting this Dr. continue to practise. The Missouri Board of Healing Arts needs to be investigated. Is the compromise more to protect the Board so we never know just how bad they dropped the ball. The 500 people that had their files dumped should seek accountability from the Board, they should have closed down this Dr. long before this happened.