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News Release — February 15, 2005
MEDICAL BOARD OF CALIFORNIA
February 15, 2005
Medical
Board of California Accusation Leads
to Surrender of Los Angeles Physician's Medical License
SACRAMENTO—Facing a formal Accusation of unprofessional conduct before the Medical Board of California, Los Angeles physician Alan Nathan Rademan, M.D. has surrendered his license to practice medicine. The stipulated surrender of his medical license was accepted by the board's Division of Medical Quality on January 7, 2005 and becomes effective on February 22, 2005.
The Medical Board accused Rademan, a psychiatrist, of violating Business and Professions Code sections 726 and 2234(b), in that, in 2004, he committed numerous boundary violations by engaging in significant financial transactions with three patients and a sexual relationship with one patient.
Rademan also violated several terms and conditions of his probation by: failing to comply with the practice monitor's request for information about and access to the charts of the four patients with whom he committed boundary violations; failing to obey all laws by engaging in financial transactions with three patients and a sexual relationship with one patient, as well as failing to transfer the patient to an independent therapist; and when submitting his quarterly declaration, failing to respond to the question about whether he was in compliance with each condition of his probation.
Previously, Rademan had been disciplined by the board.
On June 23, 2003, the Division of Medical Quality placed
Rademan's medical license on five years' probation with
terms and conditions, some of which included: 14 days'
actual practice suspension; enrolling in the Physician
Assessment and Clinical Education Program's record keeping
and pain management courses; enrolling and completing
an ethics course; practice monitoring; obeying all laws;
submitting quarterly reports; no supervising physician
assistants; reimbursing the board $4,000 for investigative
and prosecution costs; and paying costs associated with
probation monitoring each year of probation, which was
set at $2,488.
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The mission of the Medical Board is to protect healthcare consumers through the proper licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons and certain allied healthcare professions and through the vigorous, objective enforcement of the Medical Practice Act.
If you have a question or complaint about the healthcare you are receiving, the board encourages you to visit its Web site at www.caldocinfo.ca.gov or for questions call the Consumer Information Line at (916) 263-2382, or with complaints call (800) 633-2322.
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