MARYLAND DOCTOR SPEAKS OUT OVER THE INNOVO MEDICAL THERMOMETER

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A Maryland doctor suspended from practicing medicine says people will die as a result of a board's decision. However, Innovo Medical the state board of physicians says she has frequently been drinking on the job.

Dr. Grace Zeim refutes those claims. She says her patients - who receive treatment from her medical supplies for chemical exposure -- will suffer following her license suspension.

Asked by local station KLEW whether she has a drinking problem, Zeim replied, "No - I don't drink.....I have  Innovo Medicalnever worked under the influence of drugs or alcohol in my medical practice."

Claims in public records allege Zeim was habitually drunk at work. Maryland's Innovo Medical Board claims Zeim was intoxicated at work during office hours, with staff telling the board that on approximately 24 occasions Innovo Medical in the last two years they believed she had been drinking because she slurred Innovo Medical her words and slammed into things.

KLEW notes that staff also claim they once found Ziem sleeping on her Innovo Medical Thermometer office floor with a vodka bottle by her bed and had to be awakened to see a patient and had to "sober up a little bit" to treat them.

Ziem says the claims are false and that she's shocked to see medical equipment. She says she hasn't had a complaint from patients. She said, Thermometer? "For some who don't know me, that may Innovo Medical happen. For the patients who know me and love me, they know something doesn't square with the doctor that they know and love."

KLEW reports Ziem says the board's action may be motivated by Innovo people whose toes are close to pulse oximeter she's stepped on over the years. She added that she only had a few minutes to defend herself Innovo Medical at the initial hearing that took her license. Ziem will get another chance to defend herself at a hearing in February.