• Some former patients turn in the doctor by filing a complaint with the state licensure board or by suing for damages in a malpractice case.  First, a health care practitioner may be under investigation for civil wrongdoing and violations of applicable state law for licensure violations. Second, the same health care practitioner may also be under investigation for criminal wrongdoing as alleged for violations of state criminal laws where the doctor-patient relationship has been criminalized
• State agencies routinely handle, investigate, and dismiss  or prosecute  alleged violations of law that can be career-ending for the health care practitioner when sexual misconduct occurs between the doctor and patient. Yet these matters can come about in separate, but related ways
• This program conducts an in-depth analysis of the most salacious sexual misconduct case between a doctor and patient.  In addition to sexual aspects, this case will be shown to involve standard of care, patient billing, and even medical record keeping documentation issues
• Sexual misconduct can give rise to both a civil action as well as a criminal prosecution based on the same facts and  circumstances
• Identify the varying bases for laws that prohibit romance between the doctor and patient. Identify the consequences of regulatory misconduct in health care when sexual misconduct occurs. Develop knowledge of the administrative investigative processes
• Seek to understand and defend against such state civil actions based on the due process rights of the accused because they may result in ruinous practice and career consequences for the health care professional

This program offers an objective, thorough review of a seminal sexual misconduct case. Without an understanding of the multiple laws at hand and an application of the egregious facts at issue, the health care practitioner is deemed to fall into the same trap, and the health care practitioner likely suffers a fatal blow to his or her professional practice and career.

• The attendee will review these concepts with an in-depth examination of the most salacious sexual misconduct case between the doctor and patient. Presented by the former government attorney who prosecuted the case to a successful conclusion, the attendee will gain a broad perspective of these investigations and disciplinary actions – all with information from publicly available documents, but with the names redacted to protect the innocent. And the guilty
• Most health care professions have ethical codes of practice which prohibit romantic relationships between doctor and patients. There is a wide variety of rules that ban the romantic relationship between a current patient and the doctor – but what about a romantic relationship between the former patient and the doctor
• And is this merely an ethical rule?  \Or a rule of law with enforcements and penalties, including loss of licensure for the doctor?  What about romantic relationships between the doctor and staff
• Learn to identify, understand, and defend against sexual misconduct cases in the health care profession.These civil (and even criminal) investigations target health care practitioners who have engaged in romantic and sexual improprieties with the patient
• The attendee will be most surprised when the medical profession itself of the doctor in question is revealed