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Des Moines doctor faces malpractice claims and allegations of sexual misconduct • Iowa Capital Dispatch [1]
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Date: 2025-04-28
The Iowa Board of Medicine has charged an emergency-medicine doctor from Des Moines with sexual misconduct.
Board records indicate Dr. Douglas Selover, 67, has been charged with unprofessional conduct, a charge that includes acts that violate the “standards and principles of medical ethics,” or are “contrary to honesty, justice or good morals, whether the same is committed in the course of the licensee’s practice or otherwise.” Selover is also charged with sexual misconduct, a charge the board says “includes sexual harassment.”
The board has not disclosed when, where or how the alleged violations took place. State records indicate Selover has practiced as an emergency-medicine physician at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.
A board hearing on the charges is scheduled for Dec. 12, 2025.
Board records show that in 1991, the board approved Selover’s residency in Iowa pursuant to a consent agreement in which he agreed to abstain from the use of nonprescribed drugs, inform his treating physician of his “previous history of chemical abuse,” and abstain from drinking alcohol. As part of that agreement, Selover also promised to attend regular support-group meetings and submit to periodic testing for drugs and alcohol.
In 1992, shortly after Selover was arrested on a charge of drunken driving, the board alleged that on several occasions Selover had violated the terms of his consent agreement by consuming alcohol. Later that year, the board resolved the case by suspending Selover’s license for 30 days, after which his license was to be placed on probationary status for five years. The arrest resulted in a conviction for second-offense drunken driving, according to court records.
In 1993, the board granted Selover a license to practice osteopathic medicine in Iowa subject to probation and many of the same conditions that were imposed on his residency in 1991. In 1996, the board terminated Selover’s probation and granted him a license free and clear of any restrictions.
In November 2003, Selover was arrested again on a charge of second-offense drunken driving. The charge was later reduced to reckless driving.
Selover is currently a defendant in two separate medical malpractice cases in which he is alleged to have failed to diagnose hydrocephalus in patients he saw seven days apart at MercyOne Medical Center of Des Moines. Both patients — one of whom was a 7-year-old boy, while the other was a 12-year-old girl — subsequently died.
Selover has denied any wrongdoing in the two cases, which are currently scheduled for trial in July and September of 2027.
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