Health Care Organizational Ethics quoted in the New York Times

I'm a regular reader ot "The Ethicist" column in the Sunday New York Times. This morning's column  started with a rather s...

Plastic Surgeon-Patient Sex

I recently received these questions about doctor-patient sex with a plastic surgeon: My married sister's plastic surgeon called to give...

Sex isn't the only lust that physicians succumb to

Money and power can also lead to ethical collapse. A sad story today's New York Times tells how Dr. Sidney Gilman, a respected teacher ...

More about the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and Doctor-Patient Sex

There were two letters to the editor in today's Boston Globe about the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine's decision to...

Was the Massachusetts Board of Registration Too Harsh on this case of Doctor-Patient Sex?

The Boston Globe recently reported that the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine revoked the license of Dr. Gary Brockington, a ...

Is it OK for GP's to have sex with their patients?

For anyone interested in the ethics of doctor-patient sex and the relationship between ethics and law, the recent 5-1 decision of the Supre...

Jekyll and Hyde in Medical Practice

 I've written many times about how doctors who exploit patients sexually can provide excellent care to and be idolized by their other pa...

Teacher/student sex

I spent four happy years (9th to 12th grades) at the Horace Mann School in New York, and was startled by a New York Times article in June ti...

Returning to Practice After Loss of License

Two years ago I wrote about Dr. Brian Kwetkowsi, a primary care physician in Rhode Island, who lost his license for having a sexual relatio...

Is This Doctor-Patient Marriage Unethical?

I shouldn't have been surprised that the most read posts on this blog have been about doctor-patient sex. When I recently had occasion t...

Should a Convicted Rapist be Allowed to Practice Medicine?

In 2008, a military court convicted Dr. Mark Seldes, a Flight Surgeon serving in South Korea, for raping a civilian colleague. Dr. Seldes se...

Doctor's Notes, Political Beliefs, and Medical Ethics

On February 19, during the protests against Governor Scott Walker's union-busting proposal, a video appeared showing physicians offerin...

Doctor-Patient Sex in ObGyn Care

I decided to reply to a comment that just came in about a post I wrote on doctor-patient sex in 2009 in a new post. The topic has drawn a l...

Bloodgate - a Medical Ethics Violation that Wasn't Sexual

If you don't follow international rugby you probably haven't heard about "Bloodgate." In April, 2009, Harlequins was trail...

Doctor-Patient Sex and Quality of Care

The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal blog reported that Dr. Brian Kwetkowski, a family physician, relinquished his medical license after i...

"The Kids are All Right" and Doctor-Patient Sex

A few days ago my wife and I saw the new film "The Kids are All Right" at the charming little (100 or so seats) Savoy Theater in ...

Doctor-Patient Sex - Is There a Duty to Warn the Patient's Spouse?

Justice Nicholas Colabella recently ruled in Levine v Werboff that an aggrieved husband is entitled to bring suit against his wife's ps...

Doctor-Patient Sex: Why is it Unethical?

Earlier today I responded to the following anonymous response to a post I wrote in April about doctor-patient sex: What is the actual harm ...

Doctor-Patient Sex

Doctor-patient sex is in the news again. Here's a report from the Texas Medical Board about an action it took against Dr. Kenneth Baird,...

Is there a Right to Practice Medicine?

On October 11, 2002, Dr. Martin H. Stein, a prominent Virginia psychiatrist, surrendered his medical license to the Virginia Board of Medici...