More Information on Psychiatrist under investigation

From the Cincinatti Post

The State Medical Board of Ohio is looking into whether to revoke or otherwise limit the medical license of a Clifton psychiatrist.

The charges listed against Leo D'Souza, in a letter dated Thursday, allege inappropriate examinations of patients' private parts.

According to the medical board:

• In 1999 or 2000, he allegedly examined a 12- or 13-year-old patient's genitals with ungloved hands seven or eight times, "without appropriate medical indication."
  
  
• In August 2002, he allegedly examined a 12-year-old patient's genitals, purportedly to see if the patient had had sex. The appropriate thing to do would have been to refer the patient to a hospital emergency room.
  
  
• In November 2003, D'Souza allegedly examined a 17-year-old's genitals without gloves on. He also failed to get parental consent for a genital examination.
  
  He also allegedly advised the patient's mother to give some of the patient's medication to the patient's 8-year-old sister, without having first examined the girl.
  
  
• In October 2006, the doctor allegedly examined a 17-year-old's genitals on multiple office visits, without appropriate indications.
  
  
• On December 2006, he examined a 19-year-old patient's genitals with ungloved hands, giving as a reason that he wanted to see if the patient had a sexually transmitted disease.

D'Souza has the right to ask for a hearing in the case, and has 30 days to ask the board for one.