A Villages physician has reached an agreement with the the Florida Board of Medicine in the wake of “sexting” allegations while he was practicing in 2011 at a Lakeland walk-in clinic.
As part of the agreement, Dr. Tuan Dean will present a one-hour lecture within a year to address the subject of patient and physician boundaries on the use of text messaging and other social media. In addition, Dean will have his license suspended until the completion of an evaluation, will pay a $10,000 fine and take a course in ethics.
He has been practicing at Tri-county Physicians LLC at 1507 Buenos Aires Blvd.
He had been accused of sending sexually explicit videos and texts to a patient.
In a hearing in July before the Board of Medicine, Dean blamed “stress.”
