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Mar 28, 2007 12:00 AM (521 days ago) by Luke Broadwater, The Examiner
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The state's Board of Physicians lists the case against Dr. Morton Ellin. <b>Click on image to enlarge.</b>
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The state's Board of Physicians lists the case against Dr. Morton Ellin. Click on image to enlarge.

BALTIMORE (Map, News) - The Maryland Board of Physicians has suspended the medical license of a prominent area doctor after he admitted to engaging in “inappropriate sexual contact” with a patient about 100 times.

Morton Ellin, 77, of Pikesville, will have a hearing today at the Maryland Board of Physicians in Baltimore City. His medical license was suspended March 14.

Licensed to practice medicine since 1954, Ellin, the co-founder of Northwest Hospital, formerly Baltimore County General, declined to comment to The Examiner.

On Jan. 2, Ellin’s accuser told the board investigating Ellin that she became the doctor’s patient in 1966 when she was 18, according to the board. He then had a sexual relationship with her for years in his office and hospital room while continuing to be her doctor, the woman said.

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The woman, who admitted to self-injurious behavior as a teenager, said the sexual contact with Ellin was “not consensual,” but felt she had to participate to prevent Ellin from writing false statements in her medical records causing her to be committed to a psychiatric hospital, the report states.

The woman also said Ellin previously engaged in sexual contact with her during a house call when she was 9. Ellin denied having sexual contact with the woman while she was a minor, according to the report.

The accuser also told the board that Ellin injected her with Prolixin, medication that makes a person sleepy, before engaging in sex.

Ellin admitted to having “inappropriate sexual contact” with the woman about 100 times from 1972 to 1979, the board said.

Ellin also admitted to having extramarital sexual contact with a woman at his medical office and a nurse at Baltimore County General Hospital during the 1970s, according to the report.

Northwest Hospital Center spokeswoman Jennifer Gelman said hospital officials didn’t have enough information about the accusations to comment. She said that Ellin had not practiced at the hospital since 1994.

“Northwest Hospital Center does take any allegations of sexual misconduct by its staff or physicians very seriously,” she said.

lbroadwater@baltimoreexaminer.com

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