A patient said a Florida doctor put his penis in her hand. He’s been accused before
Even without the accusations of unwanted penis placement from a March patient, the Florida Department of Health says Jacksonville Beach chiropractor Dr. Kenneth Finger’s conduct violated terms of a 2015 settlement agreement.
Finger treated the 20-year-old woman without a chaperone in the room, according to the emergency restriction order (ERO) filed last week.
Part of the aforementioned settlement agreement stated Finger isn’t allowed to see female patients without a chaperone in the room. In 2014, a patient said Finger, in the midst of a pain massage, “bent down over (the patient), placed his finger in her vagina, and performed oral sex on her for approximately one minute.”
The settlement agreement put Finger on probation with the Board of Chiropractice Medicine, but allowed him to officially neither admit nor deny the allegations. Duval County online court records say a malpractice civil suit was filed against Finger in 2016 by someone with the same first and last initials as the patient in the in 2014 incident. After no activity on the case since 2016, it got administratively closed in 2020.
No criminal charges were filed in that incident nor after the allegations made after March 20 visit at First Coast Chiropractic.
The ERO says during the session that Finger told the patient to turn over onto her stomach so he could perform needle acupuncture at the top of her right leg. As the patient’s arms hung below the massage table, past the arm rests...
“Dr. Finger moved his body forward, close to (the patient), and placed his erect penis into both of her hands,” the ERO reads. “At the time of placing his erect penis in (the patient’s) hands, Dr. Finger was wearing khaki pants and a tucked in shirt. (The patient) felt uncomfortable with Dr. Finger’s conduct. (She) moved her hand away from Dr. Finger’s penis. Dr. Finger moved closer to (the patient) and again placed his erect penis in her hands.”
The patient told the Department of Health Finger’s voice was “shaky and stuttering.” Afterwards, the ERO said, she felt “violated, embarrassed and disgusted.”
The restriction on Finger’s license? He’s no longer allowed to see female patients.
This story was originally published September 13, 2020 at 12:17 PM with the headline "A patient said a Florida doctor put his penis in her hand. He’s been accused before."
