An Illinois pediatrician who died by suicide last year may have forged patient's vaccination medical records, according to investigators.
that Koinis"regretted his conduct with immunizations," which he had been"adverse" to during the last decade of work at his practice.
Dart told the local newspaper Koinis may have forged vaccination documents at the request of parents.Authorities are now recommending that former patients of Koinis discuss this possibility with their current physicians and inquire about methods to test for prior vaccinations,"out of an abundance of caution."
Koinis had been licensed to practice in Illinois since 1991, authorities said. He mostly served patients on Chicago's southwest side and near southwest suburbs, according to the sheriff's office. Alzein Pediatrics, the pediatric group that received Koinis' records, posted a tribute to him following the news of his death last year.
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