A former Southwest Florida doctor is facing some serious charges. A local CVS employee's suspicions helped put 67-year-old William Robert Burkey behind bars Monday. The CVS employee reported the incident and the Lee County Sheriff's Office looked into it.
LCSO says Burkey printed and purchased pictures at a local CVS, those pictures turned out to be pre-pubescent female children, along with cocoa butter and personal lubricant.
Fox 4 looked further into Dr. Burkey. He worked for Lee Memorial Health System in the early 2000s, but, Lee Health says he resigned his admitting privileges in 2005.
Looking further into Burkey's past, Fox 4 found that in 2001, Burkey was accused of prescribing at 25-year-old woman multiple muscle relaxers and pain medications.
For example, he prescribed the woman with 20 Vicodin pills one day, and 20 more the very next day, and did not keep proper records of those prescriptions. Vicodin is known to be a habit-forming drug.
In 2004, during a procedure, Burkey left a guide wire inside of an 88-year-old woman’s groin. Burkey settled in a lawsuit in 2007, and the board of health fined him $20,000.
Following that case, the 88-year-old woman’s family and lawyers asked the Board of Health to revoke Burkey’s license.
In 2006, he voluntarily withdrew from practice and entered into recommended treatment.
In 2007 he went back to practicing medicine, but he was under professional monitoring, where he was supposed to be submitting quarterly updates. Burkey was doing that until 2014. That year he failed to submit any updates, because of that he was terminated from the monitoring and subsequently lost his license.
