The Washington doctor who faced a disciplinary hearing
has reached a settlement with the state.
Two years ago, the King five investigators exposed Doctor Anna
Rein's scheme to make money during the COVID pandemic.
Our team also found numerous other complaints
in state records against the Ellensburg.
Doctor Chris Ingles reports.
At least one of her former patients is unhappy with
the ruling that allows her to keep her doctor's license.
We do a lot of anti aging
um skin procedures.
Doctor Anna
Elr was the sole practitioner and owner of awake health.
Her treatment was unlike any that other
doctors had prescribed when Trucker D Dunphy,
a diabetic came to her Ellensburg office for a medical exam in 2021.
Yeah,
she took me off three quarters of my medications that
the my regular doctor and that she's had me on.
I paid for around $400 for her to give me some kind of
na
nature pills. I mean, there wasn't really prescription pills from a pharmacy.
Barely a month later, Dunphy ended up in Memorial Hospital in Yakima.
They put me in the hospital and I'd have a stroke.
I believe that
she had a lot to do with me
having a stroke and them seizures when I had seizures and everything by
making me go cold turkey. Dun's
complaint is one of more than 30 in state records filed against Doctor
Elr.
She came to the attention of the King
five investigators two years ago when an anonymous
tipster told us she was issuing hundreds of
medical exemptions from the COVID vaccine at a
time when the jabs were required by many employers.
Are you running a vaccine exemption mill here
where you're taking payments and signing
exemptions with no questions asked.
Absolutely not.
But we sent in undercover journalists posing as patients who recorded
doctor
ELN signing waivers certifying that they had medical
conditions that made the COVID vaccine unsafe.
She said that if an employer was ever to ask me about
my vaccine exemption, that that would be considered
blatant workplace harassment,
there were no medical questions or exams required only the fee up to $200 per person.
Several former employees also filed complaints and supplied video
alleging that
ELN was drinking and using drugs on the job and pretending to shoot them with
the handgun that she has a permit to carry doc thinks she's joining the Marine
rein a doctor of osteopathic medicine was
scheduled for a disciplinary hearing last month.
But in June, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine made up of other dos
quietly settled on an agreed order.
They found
Elr committed unprofessional conduct with nine patients. Although Dr
Alperin
is not required to admit or agree with the allegations,
she'll pay a $5000 fine,
submit to state audits and no longer issue COVID waivers or perform
Department of Transportation medical exams like she did for Dee Dunphy,
but she keeps her doctor's license and can still practice medicine.
What do you think about that?
I don't think that's right.
I don't think she should be able to keep her license myself.
What would you say to the medical board that let her keep her license? I'd say that uh
she completely ruined my life.
My goal is to help people to do their daily activities. Yuri
Skov ad O seen in this skagit regional health video
was on the panel of doctors that decided
Eln's fate
as panel chair, he signed the disciplinary order.
Doctor Saron
refused to speak with the King five investigators
so did the Washington Department of Health. But in a statement, it said
Dr
Eln's case is an example of a board considering all available evidence
and arriving at what the board believes is the best outcome.
Doh said there was insufficient evidence to prove
ELN was drinking or using drugs at work.
In short, doctors, other D OS handed down the discipline, working in secret
a print shop now inhabits the building where doctor
Prin used to practice
and the state says she's out of business,
although she's held on to her doctor's license,
she still faces problems from at least one state agency
before we visited her office in 2021 with our hidden cameras.
The State Department of Labor and Industries was already investigating
ELN for blatant COVID violations including refusal to wear a face mask.
And I says it's still trying to collect $40,000 in fines from her.
Elr did not respond to our repeated requests to comment for this story.
D Dunphy complaint was sustained by the disciplinary board.
Although the board did not say that
ELN was responsible for his stroke.
His days of driving a truck are over. It
really messed up my life
in
the long
run
because I haven't been able to work for two years. Chris Ingles King. Five news.