U-S Congressman Scott DesJarlais, a licensed physician, has been reprimanded and fined by the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners for having sex with patients before he was elected to Congress. The Republican won re-election last year despite revelations that he had affairs with patients and once urged one of them to seek an abortion. He was fined five-hunderd dollars and is responsible for up to one-thousand dollars in costs for the panel’s investigation. He did not the contest the findings. The ruling comes in response to two complaints filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which called the penalties pathetic. DesJarlais has already drawn two Republican challengers in advance of next year’s primary, state Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville and state Rep. Joe Carr of Lascassas.