Doctors Name: Arnab Ganguly
License Number: 75714
License Status:
Current - (Dues Paid)
City of Record: Downey
Region: Los Angeles
License issued on: 07/01/2001
Licensing Boards: Medical
Specialties :
Internal Medicine
Gender: Male
Accusations and Infractions or Causes for Discipline:
Unprofessional Conduct
Inappropriate Physical Contact During Exam
Date of Last MBC Action: 03/17/2017
Repeat Offender:
No
Ongoing Discipline:
No
Out of State Discipline:
No
No Medical Board Activity:
✔
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Medical Board Documents, News Articles, Court Documents, Etc.
| Accusation 2/09/2016 | |
| Dismissal 3/17/2017 | |
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Additional Information (Medical School, Dated Actions, Excerpts from Disciplinary Actions, Notes)TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- 3/17/2017—ACCUSATION DISMISSED.
- 2/09/2016—ACCUSATION FILED.
Excerpt from Accusation dated 2/09/2016:
9. Respondent's license is subject to disciplinary action under sections 820 and 822 in that, after submitting to a mental examination, the mental examiner concluded that Respondent is unsafe to work as a pediatrician with patients under age eighteen. The circumstances are as follows:
10. Respondent is a licensed physician and surgeon. From approximately 2002 until 2014, Respondent was employed by Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in Chino, California, as a pediatrician. Respondent currently works for Apple Care Medical Group in Downey, California as an internal medicine specialist in general practice.
11. During Respondent's tenure at SCPMG, three separate complaints had been filed against Respondent by mothers of female patients:
a. In or about 2009, Respondent conducted a physical examination of patient I. C., who was twelve years old at the time, without a chaperone present. Patient I. C.'s mother complained to SCPMG that Respondent was alone in the room with her daughter and inappropriately touched her.
b. In or about 2013, Respondent conducted a physical examination of patient E. M., who was seventeen years old at the time, without a chaperone present. Patient E. M. 's mother complained to SCPMG that her daughter's appointment was for a sports physical only, but that Respondent examined and touched E. M. 's breast and examined her genital area.
c. In or about 2014, Respondent saw a 5-year-old female patient for a kindergarten physical. The child's mother was present during the examination. The mother complained to SCPMG that Respondent grabbed the waistband of her daughter's skirt and took a quick peek at her genital area, but that he did not explain that he was going to look in that area.
12. Following the third complaint, SCPMG investigated Respondent and monitored his work computer. Found on his work computer were two videos of his daughter, age four at the time, showing her with a wrapped blanket between her legs, rubbing the blanket up and down between her legs, while she is watching television. Also found on his work computer was an adult pornographic video involving two women, one dressed in a doctor's outfit, reenacting a gynecological exam.
13. SCPMG suspended Respondent and he eventually resigned.
14. On or about June 27, 2015, Respondent was examined by Dr. B.P.J., M.D., F.A.A.C.P. A complete, comprehensive and extensive evaluation was performed and psychological testing was completed.
15. When asked during the evaluation how Respondent felt about childhood sexual abuse, Respondent acted without emotion stating he did not like it. When asked how he understood why somebody might sexually abuse a child, Respondent indicated that a man could abuse a child "if the opportunity arises." Then, he stated, "Maybe, I don't know."
16. Based on the three complaints filed by mothers of young girls who Respondent had examined, the pornographic video involving a woman dressed in a doctor's outfit, videos of his daughter, his lack of emotional reaction of expected feelings to the issue of child sexual abuse, and his understanding of why somebody would commit sexual acts against a child, which Respondent indicated was opportunistic, Dr. J. concluded that Respondent may be bordering on inappropriate or problematic behaviors. Respondent showed poor judgment in examining young girls, such that the mothers complained on three occasions, and the evidence points in the direction of preoccupation or inappropriate fascination with aberrant sexual behaviors. In view of this, Dr. J. recommended that Respondent is not safe to work as a pediatrician with patients under age eighteen.
17. As set forth in paragraphs 10 through 16, above, Respondent's license is subject to discipline pursuant to Code sections 820 and 822 in that after submitting to a mental examination, the mental examiner concluded that Respondent is unsafe to work as a physician without restrictions on his medical practice.
An accusation was filed against this doctor by the Medical Board of California and then later dismissed.
#Dismissal #Withdrawal
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