A state panel last week approved an agreement allowing a Magnolia physician to return to work after a rape charge against him was dismissed by a judge in August.

The agreement, approved by the Arkansas State Medical Board on Thursday, requires Dr. Jeremy Saul to submit to monitoring by the Arkansas Medical Foundation for two years, be accompanied by a chaperone while seeing patients, notify the board of any changes to his place of employment and update the board in person every six months.

The board's approval followed a judge's order on an Aug. 27 order dismissing a rape charge against Saul, stemming from an accusation by a patient at Magnolia Regional Medical Center.

Prosecutors and attorney John Wesley Hall, who represented Saul in the criminal case, had filed a motion on Aug. 26 req

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