The Maryland Board of Physicians has permanently terminated the medical license of a prominent area doctor after he admitted to engaging in “inappropriate sexual contact” with a patient about 100 times.
The medical license of Morton Ellin, 77, of Pikesville, has been suspended since March 14, but the state board permanently revoked his license last month, according to a report of board disciplinary actions released recently.
Licensed to practice medicine since 1954, Ellin, the co-founder of Northwest Hospital ? formerly Baltimore County General ? has declined to comment to The Examiner. He has not practiced at Northwest since 1994, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
On Jan. 2, Ellin?s accuser told the board investigating him 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.
The woman, who admitted to self-injurious behavior as a teenager, said the sexual contact with Ellin was “not consensual,” but she felt she had to participate to prevent him from writing false statements in her medical records causing her to be committed to a psychiatric hospital, the report states.
The accuser also told the board that Ellin injected her with Prolixin, medication that makes a person sleepy, before engaging in sex.
Ellin admittted the about 100 acts of “inappropriate sexual contact” he had with the woman occurred from 1972 to 1979, the board said.
