Report Describes Chaotic Scene at Doctor's Office

Track marks visible on both arms. A meth pipe in the desk drawer. "White powder everywhere."

These are hardly the hallmarks typically associated with a doctor or his home. But there they all are, laid out as allegations in a 20-page report on file with state regulators at the Maryland Board of Physicians. The report describes an investigation of Bethesda physician Eric C. Greenberg, 42, whose license was suspended in April.

Among the report's allegations:

- On April 1, a team of federal and local narcotics agents raided Greenberg's office on Old Georgetown Road.

- They found an office manager on the first floor, and Greenberg, his wife and his brother-in-law were in an upstairs residential area.

- Greenberg presented himself with what appeared to be needle-marks on his arms, some so fresh he was bleeding.

- Greenberg also appeared to have needle marks on his hands and feet. His feet were swollen.

- The living area was "unkempt and chaotic."

- Inside desk drawers was a methamphetamine pipe and butane lighter.

- The office manager told agents that Greenberg treated "regular patients" and "narcotics patients," the latter category arriving from points as far as Ellicott City for Oxycontin, Vicodin, Percocet and other drugs.

This wasn't the first time visitors to his office reported odd behavior. In 2004, a patient told the Board of Physicians about her appointment for knee pain.

"The patient described respondent [Greenberg] as very disheveled looking with sores on his hands and face, dried blood under his nose, unshaven, and hair 'flaky.' His clothes were not pressed, he did not have socks on, his shoes were 'ratty,' his medical coat was dirty and it had what appeared to her to be dried, splattered blood all over the shoulder. The patient further stated that respondent stuttered and mumbled and was very difficult to understand."

That complaint was part of a larger investigation that led to Greenberg being placed on probation by the Board of Physicians in 2007.