The above study was also reported in the Clinical Psychiatry News in March.  It had no funding, just an enterprising fellow in forensic psychiatry.  And her apparent mentor was Glen Gabbard, some of whose work I read when he was at Menninger.  One of the guys who is old enough that he has seen things.

I give them points on reminding the world of something it seems to have forgotten. There are people who qualify as doctors, who are taking care of patients, and who are trouble. The problems in the group studied, people who have “professionalism issues,” range from sexual boundary issues to gross incompetence and cover specialties that are not necessarily psychiatry.  The physicians studied are mostly Caucasian males, which comes as no surprise to me.

The physicians studied mostly have psychiatric diagnoses. Things that sound like any fairly competent psychiatrist could have diagnosed them. There was some kind of “rehabilitation” involved when they were in training, for the most part, so they went on and acted rotten anyway. Read more on There Are A Lot Of Good Doctors Out There, But ……