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| N.J. Medical Board Revokes License of Longtime Prison Doctor |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 11/20/2002 |
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The N.J. Board of Medical Examiners has revoked the license of a former prison doctor who was accused by inmates of sadistic behavior. The 13-member board issued its unanimous ruling recently after a six-hour hearing involving complaints against John J. Napoleon, who has been a physician for 37 years. It ends a seven-year state probe of Napoleon, who must close his private practice in Cape May Court House and resign as a surgical assistant at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital by Nov. 21. An administrative law judge had recommended in August that Napoleon's license be revoked because of his 'contempt' for some inmates he treated during his tenure at Bayside State Prison in Cumberland County and the Cape May County Jail, between 1968 and 1992. The medical board upheld the judge's decision in seven of the nine cases cited in his ruling, The Press of Atlantic City reported in Thursday's editions. Napoleon, who also was ordered to pay $53,845 in penalties and court costs, tried to discredit the inmates accusations and noted that no patient outside the prison system had filed a complaint against him. However, Deputy Attorney General Paul G. Kenny said Napoleon saw inmates as a 'sub-class' undeserving of equal care. The complaints against Napoleon included charges that he doubted a prisoner's chest pains the day before the man suffered a fatal heart attack; suggested in records that an inmate was 'faking' shortly before he died of a brain tumor; and delayed a prisoner's diagnosis of throat cancer. Napoleon graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1965 and spent a year as a physician at Atlantic City Medical Center before opening his own practice. He also served 17 years as the Cape May County medical examiner. |
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