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Josef Steen

North London doctor who prescribed her boyfriend Ozempic is suspended

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing was held in Manchester - (Google)

A doctor in north London has been sanctioned after prescribing drugs to her boyfriend to help him lose weight while trying to hide her true identity.

Dr Josevania Martins was handed a nine-month suspension by an independent medical tribunal earlier this month after prescribing Ozempic and Wegovy to a man, named only as “Mr B”, whom she was dating. During this relationship, she made efforts to conceal her status as a doctor, a tribunal heard.

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