Florida psychiatrist suspended for sexual misconduct

October 3, 2017

According to an article in the Miami Herald:

"Dr. Ely Pelta, a Coral Springs [Florida] psychiatrist, was suspended from practicing medicine for six months by the Florida Board of Medicine in August as part of a settlement over sexual misconduct charges stemming from suggestive text messages he sent to a patient in May 2014. The Department of Health knew for years about similar charges made against Pelta by another patient in 2006, but could not discipline the doctor because the patient declined to testify against her psychiatrist. It is a crime in Florida for a psychiatrist to engage in a sexual relationship with a patient."

The text messages included telling her she needed a "sugar daddy" and that he wanted her to be his "sugar baby."

SOURCE: Daniel Chang, "Doctor’s license suspended after he texted female patient ‘You need a sugar daddy,'" Miami Herald, 29 Sep 2017, http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article176221116.html.

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Lazara Martinez

2023-10-27 12:59:45

I used to be a patient of Dr pelta and I often wondered what happened to him. Seems like the best doctor's out there are always getting charged with stupid things. To me Dr pelta was funny he would make me smile and at the end of the day he would give me exactly what I need the proper medication Dr polter listen to me and prescribe me what I needed not like other doctors after him that I ended up being prescribed like 15 different medications which by the way I never took I miss you Dr pelta Lazaro Martinez when you weren't on Biscayne boulevard and 116th
I wish you were closer to Miami where you move so far away you were and have been the best doctor out of all the doctors I've ever seen after you they have all been garbage and I've even threatened to sue this old man for harassing me and try to convince me over and over and over again for taking the covert shot. Once I say no one time that's it this other doctor Dr morman after the third time I told him if you tell me one more time to get the stupid poison I'm going to sue you a month later he resigned

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