New Jersey doctor accused of sexually abusing two patients

🔺NJ doctor has his license revoked
🔺Accused of sexually abusing two patients
🔺Gynecologist is accused of sexual misconduct during examinations

TRENTON – A Mercer County obstetrician-gynecologist will have his medical license revoked after he was accused of sexually abusing two patients.

Bruce Pierce practiced at Delaware Valley OBGYN & Princeton Midwifery in Lawrenceville, where both women were longtime patients.

The State Board of Medical Examiners voted unanimously to suspend his license pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation. The board heard testimony from patients.

Officials did not say Tuesday whether Pierce will face criminal charges.

Both women said Pierce touched them inappropriately during what was supposed to be a routine exam last year.

He is alleged to have committed the improper conduct when there was no medical supervisor in the room.

In each case, the graphic incident began after Pierce said he was going to examine the patient’s clitoris, according to the agency’s temporary suspension order.

The examination that followed was unlike what any woman had experienced in the years she had gone to Pierce as a trusted doctor, they testified.

The first patient reported the incident to Lawrenceville police about a week later.

In the case of the second patient, Pierce called the woman days later from his personal cell phone – which authorities said was evidence of his guilt.

Pierce’s actions amounted to “violating the trust placed in him as a doctor and abusing that trust to instead enable him to act as a sexual predator,” the board also said.

“Patients undergoing sensitive medical examinations trust the expertise and professionalism of their doctor. When physicians abuse that trust for their own sexual gratification, the consequences can be devastating,” Platkin said in a written statement.

“No patient should ever have to fear being sexually exploited on a doctor’s exam table,” said Cari Fais, director of the Division of Consumer Affairs. “This doctor’s alleged conduct violates the most fundamental tenets of the medical profession.”

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