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Medical Board of California Accusation Leads to Surrender of Laguna Niguel Physician's Medical License

SACRAMENTO,  Facing a formal Accusation by the Medical Board of California for multiple violations of the Medical Practice Act, Laguna Niguel physician Kevin J. London, M.D. (also known as Gerald K. Greenberg) has surrendered his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was effective on March 15, 2005. The license surrender follows the imposition of a full interim suspension order by Administrative Law Judge Ralph Dash that has been in effect since February 10, 2005.

In a Second Amended Accusation and Petition to Revoke Probation, the Medical Board accused London of violating multiple sections of the Business and Professions Code, including sections 2234(b) (c) (d) (e) (gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, incompetence and dishonesty); section 2266 (inadequate medical record-keeping); section 2306 (practicing medicine while suspended); and section 2238 (violating drug statutes). Between January 5, 2001 through March 19, 2002, London wrote prescriptions for nine different medications for a patient on 18 occasions while failing to make any notations on the patient's chart. Even though three of the medications he prescribed were antidepressants, he failed to advise the patient's psychotherapist that he prescribed these medications. London also violated physician-patient boundaries when he hired and became romantically involved with the patient to whom he was providing psychological treatment and prescribing psychoactive drugs.

The board also accused London of being grossly negligent in his care and treatment of several patients who had cosmetic procedures performed by him. Among other things, these included: positioning breast implants too high; failing to recognize deep infections around the breast implants; suturing draining wounds over infected breast implants; failing to remove implants when infections were noted; replacing infected breast implants before allowing sufficient time for the infection to clear; removing, then re-implanting an infected, exposed implant in the same breast in the same capsule; and prescribing antibiotics for prolonged periods of time, contributing to the emergence of resistant bacteria.

Prior to London's name change, in an action entitled In the Matter of the Accusation Against Gerald K. Greenberg, M.D. Case No. 04-1997-76124, the board placed his medical license on seven years' probation effective March 1, 2000. Term and Condition 1 of the probation order initially suspended London from the practice of medicine for 135 days from March 1, 2000 through July 14, 2000. Although a medical colleague agreed, as a professional courtesy, to issue a prescription for London's mother while his license was suspended, London continued to call in prescriptions for not only his mother, but his father and himself without the knowledge or consent of the medical colleague. Several of these prescriptions were procured while his license was suspended. London also violated other terms and conditions of his probation, including failing to obey all laws when he refused to allow an on-site drug inventory inspection.

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