Following a complaint that Dr. Harold Spear had a sexual relationship with a patient — which resulted in a child — the Hanapepe doctor has been prohibited from practicing medicine for one year.
The suspension of Spear’s license has nothing to do with the pending criminal charges against him, Constance Cabral, the state medical board’s administrator, said.
The board of medical examiners suspended Spear’s license as a disciplinary action; however, it found that Spear’s sexual relationship with a patient who mothered one of his children didn’t affect his qualifications or duties as a physician, according to the final order filed with the professional and vocational licensing division within the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
Spear, whose KONG radio show, “Dial-a-Doc,†was recently canceled, is awaiting a January trial for allegations that he prescribed pain medications without a legitimate medical purpose, a law that his attorney, Michael Green, said is a “vague†definition at best.
“Before someone gets charged with a crime, that person should know from the language what makes it a crime,†he said.
(Source: Amanda C. Gregg, Kauai Garden Island News)
