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The Maryland Board of Physicians has suspended the license of Miguel Frontera, a Towson, Maryland psychiatrist, for alleged improper conduct with five boys in his care. The boys were being seen for ADHD.

“Allegations from each of the boys, ages 10 to 12 at the time they were patients, were similar and all involved improper conduct during physical exams in his office that the doctor himself called ‘not, you know, necessary’ and ‘very out of the mainstream of psychiatry,’ according to the suspension order issued by the Maryland Board of Physicians.

“The public order says the investigation began after Baltimore County police turned over two reports in April. One report was filed in 2006 by a county high school crisis interventionist who said a boy she counseled told her he was repeatedly ‘molested’ during treatment visits when he was 11 or 12. Earlier this year, the parents of another boy reported to police possible sexual abuse that they said occurred in 2003 when their son was 10.”

Why this idiot isn’t being charged criminally is beyond me, but one hopes the Board takes away his license permanently at a later hearing. This kind of behavior is so unacceptable that it’s difficult to imagine a grown man, much less an MD, engaging in it. Besides, who’s ever heard of a psychiatrist conducting a physical exam?

Meanwhile, up in Quebec, the well-knwon and controversial psychiatrist Pierre Mailloux has had his practice limited to adults only by the Quebec College of Physicians after being found guilty or partly guilty of 13 charges of either mis-diagnosing young patients or of over-prescribing drugs to them.

And in September the Quebec College of Physicians found that he had breached profession ethics by talking trash about black and aboriginals in the media. The doctor’s Wikipedia entry has more fascinating details about his career and many controversies.

Thanks to the readers who made me aware of these cases.

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