Board approves consent order; Dr. Bradley Suggs suspended with monitoring, chaperone requirement

The State Board of Medical Licensure approved a consent order suspending Dr. Bradley Suggs’ license for one year with nine months immediately stayed, allowing him to seek return to practice three months after entry of the order subject to conditions.

The vote followed testimony from Dr. Bradley Suggs and remarks from his attorney, Mark Hodges, and a presentation of a Pine Grove evaluation and related materials by board staff. The board amended a recommended term in the order, replacing the word “scribe” with “female chaperone” for encounters with female patients before approving the consent order.

Board members heard that the board received a complaint in December 2023 alleging that Dr. Suggs engaged in sexualized direct messaging with a patient. According to the staff presentation, the executive director met with Dr. Suggs in February 2024, showed him printed direct messages the board had obtained, and Dr. Suggs admitted the messages were genuine. The staff said there is no evidence in the record that the relationship progressed to a physical sexual relationship.

The board reviewed an April 8, 2024 comprehensive psychosexual evaluation from Pine Grove, which concluded Dr. Suggs “did not endorse sufficient criteria to warrant a diagnosis of compulsive [sexual] behavior” but noted prior concerns and recommended intensive residential or partial-hospitalization treatment (a minimum suggested 6–8 weeks), a period of monitoring and further exploration of the issue in…