Pharmacist Surrenders in Drug Dilution Case
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A wealthy pharmacist in Kansas City accused of diluting chemotherapy drugs surrendered to the FBI as investigators studied his records page by page to find patients who may have been given weakened treatments for cancer.
Authorities said some intravenous drug bags contained less than 1% of the dosages ordered by doctors.
Robert R. Courtney, 48, is accused of diluting prescriptions for Taxol and Gemzar filled at his Research Medical Tower Pharmacy in Kansas City.
He was charged Tuesday with a single felony count of misbranding and adulteration of a drug and was ordered held without bond by a judge who called him a flight risk.
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