Big Blue has hundreds of reasons to be red-faced about a 240-page, independent inquiry that offers disturbing, black-and-white evidence that ought to be heeded by higher educational institutions nationwide: Young men can be sexually preyed upon by doctors, too. The University of Michigan, in fact, ignored four decades of exploitative and abusive conduct by Robert….
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Sexually transmitted infections spike for sixth year in a row, CDC reports
While the coronavirus pandemic savaged the country, another infection spiked, too, with nasty consequences: The nation set new records in 2019 and likely in 2020 for cases of sexually transmitted diseases or infections, illnesses that once were on the brink of control. As Raul Romaguera, acting director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and….
Continue ReadingState license boards warn doctors of consequences for sexual misbehavior
Although state licensing boards have taken more than their fair share of criticism for failing to discipline bad doctors as quickly and severely as circumstances merit, regulators appear to be trying to get ahead of a problem that especially plagues women patients and women health staff: doctors’ sexual misbehavior. This inappropriate conduct can encompass a….
Continue ReadingUSC to pay $1.1 billion to settle gynecologist’s hundreds of sex abuse cases
The University of Southern California apparently has set a record — one which parents should pray no college has reason to challenge and for which the educators and leaders at the Los Angeles campus should be sorry and ashamed. The Trojans have announced they will pay $1.1 billion to settle lawsuits over the tawdry actions….
Continue ReadingWhen end-of-life wishes get ignored, courts see another kind of malpractice
Many Americans took a good step for themselves and their loved ones after getting shocked by learning about treatments, like prolonged machine ventilation, that coronavirus patients may undergo. Not for me, the healthy may have decided. They committed to determining end-of-life wishes, committing these to “advance directives” or POLST (portable orders for life-sustaining treatment) forms. That….
Continue ReadingUC offers $73-million settlement in class-action suit over abusive gynecologist
The University of California has offered to pay $73 million to settle with 5,000 women their class-action lawsuit asserting a staff gynecologist sexually abused them during medical procedures. This is yet another big case involving claims of years of widespread and sordid professional misconduct that somehow went undetected at a major institution, which has acknowledged….
Continue ReadingPatients finally gaining new access to medical records and doctors’ notes
Millions of Americans may be finding that their doctors routinely refer to them with terms like SOB and BS. But patients will be better off with this knowledge, once they learn how to translate medical abbreviations. The Associated Press reported that hospitals and health care systems nationwide quietly are complying with deadlines, and, under a….
Continue ReadingUnchecked Covid-19 pandemic gives U.S. a new reason to hold its breath
Falsehoods, even when loudly repeated, do not magically become true. The Covid-19 pandemic rages across the United States, and the facts do not support in any way the myth that the nation is “rounding a corner” in seeing the disease diminish its destructive course or magically disappearing. The toll of the coronavirus is ripping toward….
Continue ReadingU.S. botched testing. What about the next steps to fight Covid-19: tracing and isolating?
As state and local officials struggle with constituents restless with measures designed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, the next key phases in the battle with the novel coronavirus may prove yet more contentious. How ready are we to accept not just testing but also tracing and isolating infections? The White House is bolting to….
Continue ReadingUniversity of Michigan doctor accused of decades of sexual misconduct
The University of Michigan is investigating allegations that Robert E. Anderson, former head of the university health service and physician to UM football teams coached by Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr, sexually assaulted youthful patients across decades. Anderson worked for the university for more than 30 years and died in 2008. As the New York Times….
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