The New Hampshire Board of Medicine disciplined William Morain, a former surgeon at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, for kissing and soliciting improper relationships with one of his patients.
Morain's license to practice medicine has currently expired, and if he decides to renew his license, Morain will be subject to a three-month suspension, according to the settlement agreement with the medical board.
According to the settlement agreement, the female patient first consulted Morain in September 1994, about an earlier breast implant surgery.
Three visits later, in March 1995, Morain "discussed the possibility of entering in to a social relationship with her when and if she obtained a divorce from her husband" then kissed her on the "cheek and lips," according to the agreement.
DHMC spokesman George Packard said Morain officially resigned from the hospital staff in on June 1, 1996.
Morain is the second Dartmouth doctor to be disciplined by the New Hampshire medical board within a year.
Last June, the New Hampshire Board of Medicine suspended the medical license of Hanover psychiatrist and former Dartmouth Medical School Professor Michael Gaylor for one year as a result of Gaylor's sexual involvement with a student.
In that case, Gaylor developed sexual relationship with a student who sought his psychiatric help. The relationship lasted from 1986 to 1991.
