Remember Scott DesJarlais, the physician and “pro-family” Tennessee congressman who was caught on tape telling his mistress, who also happened to be his patient, to get an abortion so his wife wouldn’t find out about his affair? Turns out she wasn’t the only patient he had sex with:
On the heels of a sex scandal involving a female patient, another woman has acknowledged having a sexual relationship with physician and U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais while she was under his medical care.
The second woman described DesJarlais as “the nicest guy” and said he cooked dinner for her at their first get-together in 2000.
But she also said they smoked marijuana during their relationship and remembered DesJarlais prescribing her pain medication on dates at his home.
“His biggest thing that’s completely unethical is him just picking up women while he’s a doctor,” the woman said in an interview last week. “I mean, seriously, that’s his big no-no. … He’s just a hound.”
And the wife apparently found out about this one too because the woman was listed as a potential witness in the divorce proceedings. The head of the Tennessee Republican Party was quoted as saying, “Thank god he was only having sex with female patients.” Okay, not really. But it’s about reached that point, hasn’t it?
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Reginald Selkirk
October 31, 2012 at 1:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He’s married, and he brings his mistress to his house?
Randomfactor
October 31, 2012 at 1:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Coulda been worse. He coulda been a veterinarian…
composer99
October 31, 2012 at 1:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Please tell me this guy will be broken of his license to practice (if he hasn’t given it up).
Blondin
October 31, 2012 at 1:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Did anybody tell Ken Starr about this?
Doug Little
October 31, 2012 at 1:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Blondin FTW.
Gregory in Seattle
October 31, 2012 at 2:02 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Randomfactor #2 – He majored in animal husbandry, until they caught him at it.
steve84
October 31, 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
In related news, Arizona’s AG – who is appealing SCOTUS to allow him to take away domestic partnership benefits – crashed into another car and didn’t leave a note because he was with another woman. He got caught because the FBI was shadowing him because of campaign finance violations.
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/fbi-says-horne-clipped-car-drove-off-to-hide-affair/article_3ebde4f1-a288-57d4-a363-114d4f3aad2c.html
It’s always the same with these freaks. And often they are also so ugly that you wonder why anyone would want to sleep with them.
Mr Ed
October 31, 2012 at 2:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sure he had cheated on his wife with multiple patients, smoked pot and misprescribed controlled substances but he is an upstanding member of is committee who has seen the error of his ways. It isn’t like he is an urbanite who should get a mandatory sentence for Possession or proscription fraud.
Modusoperandi
October 31, 2012 at 2:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pay, typical Liberal Media! What about the Republicans who are not doing things like this, hmmm?
steve84
October 31, 2012 at 3:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@9
They haven’t been caught yet
Gregory in Seattle
October 31, 2012 at 3:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Modusoperandi #9 – Fallacy of begging the question: Are there Republicans who are not doing things like this?
Dr X
October 31, 2012 at 3:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@Random Factor:
Or a mortician.
raven
October 31, 2012 at 4:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Somehow a date with a married man at his home where you smoke marijuana and take opiate narcotics like Oxycontin just doesn’t appeal to me.
Then again, I’m not a Tea Party Republican living in Tennessee. Thank Cthulhu.
jnorris
October 31, 2012 at 4:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Did the women’s health insurance cover this? Will ObamaCare cover it? If not, is that why Republicans oppose ObamaCare?
Modusoperandi
October 31, 2012 at 5:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
raven “But she also said they smoked marijuana during their relationship and remembered DesJarlais prescribing her pain medication on dates at his home.”
She should be pissed. Not only did DesJarlais get in between her and her doctor, he was her doctor.
I’m pretty sure that qualifies as sodomy in Tennessee.
busterggi
October 31, 2012 at 10:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Damned good bedside manners apparently.
dsmccoy
November 1, 2012 at 2:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@16 If only he stopped at the side of the bed.
dingojack
November 1, 2012 at 2:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You guys are waaaay too timid.
It could have be worse -
they could be dating Dr Harold Shipman.
:( Dingo