Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Jun. 04, 2010
Respondent is a physician. In his office one morning he struck up a conversation with, and thereafter checked the blood pressure of, a nurse's assistant who, at the time, was working under contract for one of Respondent's patients. Respondent invited the nurse's assistant to come back to his office later, by herself, so that he could recheck her blood pressure, and she accepted his offer. Following her return to the doctor's office, Respondent began to engage in sexual activities with the woman, but she refused to reciprocate his advances. The issue in this case is whether Respondent committed sexual misconduct with a patient, a patient's guardian, or a patient's representative.Respondent committed sexual misconduct in the practice of medicine when he engaged in sexually aggressive behavior vis-a`-vis a nurses's assistant whom he had given medical assistance, thereby establishing a physician-patient relationship.
