It's the above-the-fold lead:
"Doctor trailed by misconduct allegations; Fertility clinic chief yielded license amid state inquiry into touching of patients" by Liz Kowalczyk | Globe Staff May 01, 2014
The longtime medical director of a popular fertility clinic is accused of inappropriately touching and sexually molesting female patients, some while they were under anesthesia, in incidents that date back at least a decade, according to records of a state investigation obtained by the Globe.
A patient first complained about Dr. Roger Ian Hardy in 2004, and over the years employees of the Reading-based fertility clinic said they witnessed at least three other incidents, the records show. Some staff “reported Dr. Hardy’s misconduct’’ to other physicians at the clinic.
Hardy had a hard-on for his work, huh?
Yet, until this year, Hardy continued to practice at the Fertility Centers of New England.
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Hardy, a reproductive endocrinologist who treated patients at the clinic for 20 years, resigned his medical license on Jan. 21 amid an investigation sparked by new allegations made to the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine, which licenses physicians.
Hardy’s attorneys did not return several calls seeking comment, and no one answered the phone at his home. Hardy, however, told a board investigator before his resignation that he had done nothing wrong and that complaints to the board might be the work of a competitor, according to the records.
But it was a patient who wrote a letter to board in 2004.
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It is not clear why Hardy’s alleged behavior was apparently allowed to continue for so many years....
Someone said something about possibly losing their job.
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Aren't they being a little hard on Hardy?
I went limp kinda quick on that story. Sorry.
