RALEIGH - The N.C. Medical Board has barred a doctor from ever supervising a hair removal clinic after a woman died from an overdose of anesthetic ointment used prior to laser hair removal.

At its meeting today, the medical board and Dr. Samuel H. Wurster agreed to a series of punitive actions in which he will never serve as director of a laser hair removal clinic and will never again apply for reinstatement of his medical license in North Carolina.

The so-called “consent order” caps a two-year process following the death of a 22-year-old N.C. State University senior who had applied an anesthetic gel to her legs prior to laser hair removal treatment.

Shiri Berg was sold a numbing cream, known as Laser Gel, and told to apply it to her legs before her appointment at Premier Body Laser and Skin Clinics in Raleigh. But Berg had seizures in her car and fell into a coma. She died Jan. 5, 2005, at Rex Healthcare.

Wurster left the clinic one month before Berg’s arrival. But during his tenure as medical director, he authorized Triangle Pharmacy to dispense LaserGel, a specially made ointment consisting of lidocaine and tetracaine, to clients undergoing laser hair removal.

The medical board found that although Wurster was no longer the medical director of the clinic at the time of Berg’s death, he nevertheless “committed unprofessional conduct” by setting up protocols that allowed the clinic to dispense the gels to patients without writing individual prescriptions and by failing to train the staff in its use.

Wurster, who now practices medicine in Cook County, Ill., agreed to the order and signed it on Tuesday. According to the order, he does not intend to reinstate his medical license in North Carolina.