STATE ORDERS TRAINING FOR BELLEVUE DOCTOR.(Local)

Byline: Kathleen Haddad Staff writer

A Bellevue Hospital anesthesiologist has been ordered by the state to enroll in a residency program at Albany Medical Center after being found guilty of professional misconduct in administering anesthesia to two patients, one of whom died.

The penalty for Dr. Barbara Fellows was decided by the state Board of Regents, which weakened the penalty recommended by state Health Commissioner David Axelrod.

According to the case record, Fellows administered a toxic dose of an anesthetic into the spine of a 39-year-old

patient, Gerlinde England of Saratoga County on June 8, 1984. The patient, who was to have had …