Psychiatrist in Suicide Suit Gives Up License

BOSTON — A psychiatrist accused of having illicit relations with a Harvard Medical School student who later committed suicide gave up her medical license Thursday, days before a state hearing.

Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog, 49, has denied all allegations of impropriety in treating Paul Lozano, 28, who died in April, 1991, of a cocaine overdose. Bean-Bayog can continue to work as a psychotherapist but cannot prescribe medicine.

Bean-Bayog said in court papers that Lozano was suicidal, abused alcohol and drugs, told lies and harbored violent thoughts.

But Lozano’s family, who have sued Bean-Bayog, said that she destroyed Lozano by forcing him to act like her baby, sexually seducing him and leaving him so depressed he killed himself.