Issues? Ya think?

He should sue his attorney. Or is any publicity, good publicity? Maybe he can "augment" that?

One complaint in over 40 years of practice, and one that was never substantiated. Dr. Darm has been unfairly accused from the outset, but our judicial system (including the medical board) requires one to do whatever is expedient and the truth gets buried. Jack, how much does it cost someone to defend oneself from claims of wrongdoing, and how often do the innocent settle for expediency's sake. When did you stwrt believing everything the O has to say without question?

Yeah, really.

These days, male docs are submitting to taking female chaperones into rooms with them to defend themselves from every kook in the world who may want to accuse them of whatever. The effect on medical costs system-wide is exorbitant; noone even questions such malarkey. I have seen people in whom I have unshakable confidence get accused of things because a patient doesn't want to pay a bill.

It is the ultimate irony. In societies without rule of law, women can be raped at will, and then stoned for it. In wealthy societies with abundant rule of law, men can be falsely accused of rape, without witnesses, and their lives and livelihoods destroyed for it.

There was the case a few years ago of the guy who spent fifteen years in jail falsely accused, missed his kids growing up,until his accuser had some sort of spiritual conversion and confessed to her lies. More recently there was the Strauss-Kahn case, where lo and behold, his accuser turned out to have lied about being raped in order to get asylum in the US, and was taped talking about the financial benefits of her accusation.

Time to get real. Rape is bad. Lying about rape is worse. Screwing professional people over by twitter-amplifying a he-said she-said accusation episode in that professional's past is just plain WRONG.

Dr Darm was one of my first employers almost 20 years ago; he always struck me as a decent fellow. He spent years as an ER Dr, and subsequently chose a less stressful way to spend his time, but, like all physicians, he will always be subject to the accusations of anyone who feels like doing some accusing.

"Time to get real. Rape is bad. Lying about rape is worse. Screwing professional people over by twitter-amplifying a he-said she-said accusation episode in that professional's past is just plain WRONG."

This isn't a case about a woman who falsely claimed rape, so I am completely at a loss as to how the two posters above want to go there. Dr. Darm was found to
have acted inappropriately with a female patient in a sexual manner, and there is no going around that fact. His own attorney admitted that it happened, and more importantly the medical board found that it happened...end of story. Although I agree that it's pretty harsh to put an ugly spotlight on the guy for doing something stupid 10 years ago, the blogger had an absolute right to say what she wanted to say about it as long as what she said was true. This is a free country and we all have a right to make non-libelous statements about whatever we want. In my opinion, Dr. Darm made another stupid mistake when he decided that it was a good idea to sue the tweeter/blogger, and I agree with Jack when he said that "the guy has issues".

Dr. Darm should not have tried to take out his frustration on someone who merely stated true facts. He did what he did, the law came down on him the way it did, and it's a public record. He did himself far more harm than good by dragging some blogger to court and shining a bright light on the whole episode. That showed poor judgment, as did the original incident.