Profession
N.H. board drops case against family physician
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Aug. 21, 2006
The New Hampshire Board of Medicine has voted to dismiss three complaints against Rochester, N.H., family physician Terry Bennett, MD, whose case attracted national attention for comments that patients claimed he made to them.
The board voted 4-2 on Aug. 2 to dismiss three complaints filed against Dr. Bennett, including one woman's claim that the doctor told her she was so obese that if her husband died she might only be desirable to black men.
The board will not appeal a June 30 court decision that halted the board's disciplinary hearings against the doctor. In his decision, Merrimack County (N.H.) Superior Court Judge Edward Fitzgerald III said he did not condone such comments but that, legally, a physician is allowed to speak freely.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/08/21/prbf0821.htm.
