Re: How can a physician be so stupid??
From: Gordon Goldman (obgyndoc@swbell.net)
Mon Oct 29 17:07:54 2007
Or better yet, how does such a sick person ever get into/graduate
from med school n the first place and post graduate training?
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Gordon M. Goldman, M.D., FACOG
Private Practice, St. Louis, Mo.
On Oct 29, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Gerald P.Rodriguez wrote:
> Your question about being "stupid" is not the appropriate
> question. Rather the question should be: "How can a physician be
> so sick?"
>
> Gerald P. Rodríguez, M.D., FACOG
> Santa Fe
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: GIN11153@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:04 PM
> Subject: How can a physician be so stupid??
>
> October 27, 2007
>
> Medical Board of California accusation leads
> to surrender of San Diego physician’s medical license
>
> SACRAMENTO — Facing charges of unprofessional conduct before the
> Medical Board of California, San Diego physician Stephen Gene
> Kolkow has surrendered his license to practice medicine. The
> stipulated surrender of his medical license was adopted on October
> 17, 2007 and became effective on October 24, 2007.
>
> In this case, Kolkow had been charged with general unprofessional
> conduct under Business and Professions Code section 2234 as a
> result of his admitted sexual abuse of a minor female family
> member. Kolkow had also been charged under Business and Professions
> Code section 2236 with having been convicted of crimes
> substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties
> of a physician and surgeon, and with being subject to mandatory
> revocation of his medical license under Business and Professions
> Code section 2232 as a result of his criminal conviction sentence
> requiring him to register as a sex offender (Penal Code section 290).
>
> On August 24, 2005, a total of thirty-six (36) felony criminal
> charges were filed against Kolkow in San Diego County Superior
> Court. On August 8, 2006, Kolkow pled guilty to thirteen (13)
> felony counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years of age (Penal
> Code section 288(a)), and one (1) felony count of oral copulation
> of a person under the age of 14 (Penal Code section 288(a)(c)(1)).
> On January 29, 2007, Kolkow was sentenced to ten (10) years in
> state prison, imposition of which was stayed by the court, placed
> on five (5) years formal probation, ordered to serve 365 days in
> county jail with credit for 190 days already served, ordered to pay
> fines and restitution and to register as a sex offender pursuant to
> Penal Code section 290.
>
> After Kolkow’s arrest and while the criminal case was pending, he
> had been suspended from the practice of medicine since November 14,
> 2005, as the result of a Petition for Interim Order of Suspension
> previously filed by the Office of the Attorney General on behalf of
> the Executive Director of the Medical Board.
>
