A doctor has been reported — twice — for unnecessarily grabbing a patient’s breast
A Live Oak doctor has had his license restricted after female patients in 2018 and 2020 said he engaged in unwanted, unnecessary breast-grabbing.
Dr. Brij Bhushan Manohar Lal Rana, who turned 71 on the day of the suspension last Friday, can still see patients, just not female patients. Rana has been licensed in Florida since July 1, 2011.
According to probable cause affidavits and the emergency restriction order (ERO) posted by the Florida Department of Health, on April 17, 2018, Rana wrapped up an appointment with a woman for whom he was a primary care physician. She was there to receive blood work.
As she was about to leave, she said, Rana wrapped his left arm around her to pull her in close and used his right hand to grope her breast. The woman said she pushed Rana’s hand away, and left the office. She told her mother, her husband at the time and the Live Oak Police Department.
Live Oak police talked to Rana, who said he couldn’t remember the patient, but “denied inappropriately touching any patient,” a probable cause affidavit said.
Another woman described a similar finish to seeing Rana at Urgent Care Center in Live Oak — left arm around to pull in, then his “right hand “glided across” her chest,” the probable cause affidavit said.
The woman “described how, during this time, Dr. Rana put his hand on her left breast and ‘squeezed it,’ ” the affidavit reads. “She stated she reacted to this by moving Dr. Rana’s hand quickly and firmly, while ‘looking at him with a fearful and angry stare.’ ”
She told Live Oak police she walked out of the room thinking, “OMG, what just happened?” The center’s assistant told her to file a complaint with the state.
Though each incident was reported to Live Oak police and generated a probable cause affidavit, a check by the Suwanee County Clerk of the Court office doesn’t show any charges were filed against Rana.
This story was originally published May 7, 2020 at 5:02 PM with the headline "A doctor has been reported — twice — for unnecessarily grabbing a patient’s breast."
