desmoinesregister.com on February 16, 2012 reported that a former physician for the Iowa prison system has surrendered his medical license to settle allegations that he sexually harassed a staff member. Dr. Pradeep Sarswat, an internal medicine physician who worked at the state prison at Oakdale, had a history of trouble with medical regulators. The Iowa Board of Medicine said that since 1989, it had suspended his license three times for drug abuse and placed him on probation for “insensitive … non-therapeutic physical touching of his patients during lower-back exams.” In that 1993 case, three women said he pressed his pelvis against them, and one of the women said he kissed her back three times. He denied the allegations. In the latest case, the medical board said Sarswat sexually harassed a subordinate female staff worker at the prison. According to board documents released Tuesday, Sarswat has surrendered his Iowa medical license.

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