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The Iowa Board of Medicine has placed on probation the license of a physician accused of incompetence and issued a warning to another doctor accused of “extreme rudeness.”

Recently, the board charged 39-year-old Dr. Chinedu G. Ifejiagwa of Newton with professional incompetence for failing to exercise the degree of care expected of a physician, and with failing to report disciplinary action by a hospital.

The board alleges that in August 2022, a hospital the board has opted not to identify issued an emergency suspension of Ifejiagwa’s clinical privileges. Ifejiagwa later resigned from his position, which the board has not disclosed, at the hospital. According to the board, he then failed to di

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