A doctor cannot proceed with claims that a physician's assistant who treated him was guided by personal animus in an alleged attempt to damage his reputation by informing an investigator of his request for prescription pills, the Superior Court has ruled.

A split three-judge panel issued a memorandum Aug. 8 in Greenberg v. Buckley affirming a trial court's decision to sustain defendant Barbara Buckley's preliminary objections to claims of defamation, abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress brought by Michael Greenberg.

Greenberg brought suit in June 2015, alleging that Buckley had informed a Board of Medicine investigator during an ongoing investigation that she wrote him prescriptions for Adderall upon his request, never performed a physical examination of him, and followed specific orders for the type of drug, dosage and number of pills to be prescribed.