A 79-year-old Iowa dentist with a long history of disciplinary action has agreed to surrender his license after being accused, for the third time, of stealing a patient’s prescription drugs.
In November, the Iowa Dental Board charged Robert Bruce Cochrane of Fort Dodge, IA, with unlawfully possessing or attempting to obtain controlled substances.
According to the board, Cochrane had scheduled a procedure on a patient and asked her to bring to the appointment the medications he had prescribed for her. “It was alleged that certain pills were not returned to the patient at the end of the appointment,” the board claims. “Upon the patient indicating that she was missing pills from her prescription, they were located by (Cochrane) and ultimately returned to the patient.”…