Each state has its own set of statutes and regulations on licensing doctors, accommodating patients who wish to file complaints, and releasing information about physicians who have been subject to discipline and legal action. On this page, we’re sharing the key findings regarding Kansas, which we will continue to update as the series progresses.
Key fact: Kansas redacts and marks as confidential large portions of some medical board orders, including the terms under which doctors may practice when they are on probation.
"The Presiding Officer also considers that [the doctor’s] alleged misconduct has only been with female patients…”
— The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, in its 2013 decision to lift the emergency suspension of a doctor and allow him to treat male patients. A few days later, it again modified its order, saying he could treat female patient if a nurse chaperone was present. Among the complaints against him: A patient said that after he asked her to disrobe completely with no gown, he touched her pubic hair and said “nice”; asked her if she used sex toys and told her how long it had been since he had had sex with his wife.
According to a 2001 Board of Healing Arts order, Culp pinched a patient's nipples and made inappropriate comments when she was seeing him about a work injury. When she was clothed he put a tuning fork on her crotch and asked if it excited her. Then he opened her pants and digitally penetrated her. He was charged with rape in Wyandotte County, according to the order. It also cites complaints of violations with another female patient. Later that year, the board revoked Culp's license.
He was later sent to prison when he refused to acknowledge responsibility and so wasn’t deemed eligible for a therapy program.
Allegations against Culp date back to at least 1998, when patients complained he made inappropriate remarks of a sexual nature, but the board decided these didn’t merit any restrictions on his license.
Culp died in 2013 at the age of 88.
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