JoCo doctor accused of sex with patients loses Kansas license, can still work in Mo.
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An Overland Park psychiatrist has agreed to an indefinite suspension of his Kansas license amid allegations of having sex with patients and other violations…Brian Patrick Lahey took the suspension and agreed to not contest the allegations in a consent order issued Tuesday by the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.
“Licensee committed an act or acts of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct by committing an act or acts of sexual abuse, misconduct or other improper sexual contact, which exploited the licensee-patient relationship,” the order says.
The order Lahey signed said he agreed that the board had sufficient evidence to prove the allegations if he didn’t present any defense…
According to the complaints, which were provided to The Star from a source not affiliated with the medical board, Lahey hired the woman to work in his office and prescribed her opioid painkillers “to calm her down.” Multiple complaints say the woman overdosed on the pills and had to be taken by ambulance to the emergency room. She survived.
According to the complaints, which were provided to The Star from a source not affiliated with the medical board, Lahey hired the woman to work in his office and prescribed her opioid painkillers “to calm her down.” Multiple complaints say the woman overdosed on the pills and had to be taken by ambulance to the emergency room. She survived.
Lahey was also accused of having sexual relationships with two other female patients. He told investigators that he never had a romantic relationship with one of them and that nothing sexual happened with the other “while existing as my patient.”
The board had issued an emergency suspension of Lahey’s license in July as it investigated those allegations and whether Lahey used marijuana while on the job. The consent order says he continued to practice medicine for a week after that, even though he knew he wasn’t licensed to do so…
Excerpted from:JoCo doctor accused of sex with patients loses Kansas license, can still work in Mo.
BY Andy Marso
Kansas City Star
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