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Dr. Kristen Helms denies drinking while treating patients as licensing hearing moves to executive session
Summary
At a licensing hearing, Dr. Kristen Helms denied allegations that she drank while treating patients on several dates and called the complaint 'retaliatory.' The board sustained and overruled multiple evidentiary objections and paused the public record to review a sealed intake report in executive session.
A licensing hearing resumed Thursday as Dr. Kristen Helms, the respondent dentist, denied allegations that she drank alcohol while treating patients and disputed other claims in a multi-count statement of charges.
Susan Castenguay, the hearing moderator, opened the resumed record and asked Attorney Pizzina to continue direct examination of Helms. Counsel questioned Helms about substance-use allegations and her professional history; Helms repeatedly denied consuming alcohol while providing patient care. "I did not ever ever while I was working ever. Never," Helms testified when asked directly whether she drank on the day of the so-called "wine bottle" incident.
Helms described the Jan. 31, 2022 incident at her former practice and said she was treating patients that…
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