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 Missouri, which we will continue to update as the series progresses.
Key fact: State law requires automatic revocation of a doctor’s license upon conviction of a felony-level crime of moral turpitude.
“The Respondent showed no apparent remorse for his actions during the hearing for what he had done to a family member who will suffer life-long consequences and the fact that as a doctor he is in a position of trust.”
— Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, in its order revoking Dr. Charles Steven Krin's license following his 2010 conviction for statutory rape and sodomy. Krin told the Journal-Constitution that he surrendered his license before the board action and is not planning to go back into practice at any time. He said he started counseling before he went to trial and remains in counseling today. "[The board's] statement does not truly represent my regret at that time and since that time," Krin added.
After the urologist had numerous medical malpractice cases brought against him in Louisiana, he moved to Missouri and the board licensed him in 2003, imposing restrictions that included oversight for his medical work.
Months later, Eichmann was asked to consult on a 33-year-old who had suffered injuries as the result of a sexual assault and was having bladder problems. During that consultation, the board found, Eichmann asked the patient numerous questions about her sexuality, such as whether she was submissive during sexual relations; whether she liked to be urinated on during sex; whether she liked to be tied up; what type of stimulation would best cause her to orgasm; and whether she had ever engaged in sexual relations with more than one person at a time.
During the conversation, he told her he was becoming aroused, then he said he wanted to catheterize her to evaluate her urinary problem. She said she didn’t want to be catheterized, but as he urged her to allow the procedure, he stood over her and put his groin area on her knee. He made lewd comments, including that she would have an orgasm as he inserted the catheter. He then told her to go to an exam room, but she left quietly through his office and did not return.
To settle the complaint, the board in 2006 gave Eichmann five years’ probation, requiring him to use a chaperone and to review his protocol for questioning patients about their sexual history. In 2011, it issued another order and placed his license on probation for three years for violating terms of the settlement.
In 2013, it issued another order after finding the doctor had violated the chaperone requirement of the 2011 order. In 2014, Eichmann retired from medicine.
In an interview with the Journal-Constitution, Eichmann said that he was sorry, “as a physician and as a Christian,” for the comments he made to the patient. He said the evaluation and treatment he went through as a result of the disciplinary action helped him discover that he had a condition that could cause him to be both obsessive about his interests and awkward in social situations. Learning this about himself, Eichmann said, ended up making him a better doctor and a better person, and he said many patients continued to seek him out for care.
“Bottom line – I do not want physicians to go through what I went through,” he said.
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