As reported on the Iowa Channel Website
West Des Moines police are investigating a psychiatrist after a female patient claimed the two had an intimate relationship. According to court documents obtained by KCCI in Iowa, Dr. Gaylord Nordine hired a longtime patient to work in his office.
The woman reported that their relationship became intimate in late 2002. In May, after the relationship apparently soured, the woman turned evidence over to police, including clothing, love letters, vacation pictures and a taped phone call. She said the items prove her intimacy with Nordine.
Court documents show police searched the doctor's office at 2700 Westown Parkway in West Des Moines. Investigators seized the patient's medical records and took a DNA sample from the doctor. Court documents show Dr. Nordine had prescribed drugs, including an antidepressant for the female patient as recently as April. No charges have been filed, but police said the investigation is continuing. Nordine would not comment to KCCI.
Family psychiatrist Dr. David Drake is a former Iowa Psychiatric Society ethics committee chairman. Drake said even if a psychiatrist's relationship with a patient or former patient is consensual, it's at least unethical and can be illegal.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Woman Accuses Psychiatrist Of Improper Relationship
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Lori L. Larson Case Facts
January 10, 2009
Ms. Lori L. Larson of West Des Moines, Iowa, a former patient, applied to join Doctor Nordine’s Health Information Technology Solutions company in 2002. She was highly qualified so Larson won the position and later became a business partner with unrestricted access to all corporate management processes and intellectual properties.
More than two years later, Larson offered corporate intellectual properties to other companies and established a secret business relationship with a foreign businessman who owned technology companies that were in direct competition. These actions were in clear violation of Larson’s Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).
During Larson’s tenure, she secretly and illegally obtained prescription refills through Doctor Nordine’s medical practice. When legally confronted about breeching her NDA, Larson claimed to be a patient based on the illegal prescription refills.
Larson hid the truth so cleverly that Dr. Nordine was forced to plead guilty to Larson’s false charge of concurrent medical and personal relationships. It took more than three years to develop evidence that proves no medical relationship existed and Doctor Nordine should not have been charged.
Legal actions to correct all the records related this case commenced in June 2008.
All physicians and other professionals engaged in knowledge management or related intellectual property based businesses should take note of this precedent setting case.
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