A local surgeon who treated a Columbine victim, and later a teenager who was impaled with a wooden 2-by-4 through the abdomen, is accused of providing strippers with drug prescriptions in exchange for sex.
Dr. Philip Mallory, 52, of Centennial appeared Tuesday in an Arapahoe County courtroom on multiple felony counts of unlawful dispensing of controlled substances.
Mallory also allegedly took “several thousand” digital pictures of “various women,” some nude and some with whom he was having sex, according to an arrest affidavit.
The former Army surgeon and former chief of surgery at a Denver- area hospital was arrested in March after police received a tip in July from a dancer at Shotgun Willie’s topless bar in Glendale.
The tipster had been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, harassment and possession of a small amount of cocaine, according to court documents.
She told police Mallory wrote her numerous prescriptions for oxycodone, which she first used for residual pain from a breast implant. He was not her surgeon.
The Arapahoe County district attorney’s office agreed not to file charges against the dancer in exchange for her cooperation in the Mallory case, the affidavit states.
Beyond the prescriptions, Mallory paid the dancer $150 for sexual encounters, she told investigators.
Investigators seized a computer, cameras, DVD recorder and other items from a hotel room where Mallory had been staying and where he had numerous rendezvous with several strippers, the affidavit said.
On Dec. 15, Mallory signed an agreement with the State Board of Medical Examiners not to practice medicine, but his license has not been revoked. He also surrendered his privilege to write prescriptions.
Before his arrest, Mallory gained local and national prominence for surgery on a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and for removing a 6-foot-long fence post that ripped through the back of a 17-year-old Highlands Ranch boy in a car accident.
The boy recovered, and the surgical success was featured on an episode of Oprah Winfrey’s television show.
Staff writer Kieran Nicholson can be reached at 303-820-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
