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    BrightEyesAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:57pm

    There were countless people right here in the Jezebel comments section that said this woman was a liar as it was impossible for this to have happened, either due to his profession or due to the openness of the E.R.

    I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that many people are attracted to professions that both hold power and are “beyond reproach”. As for the location, where there is a will there is a way. Crimes happen all the time, regardless of the locale.

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      tealstarBrightEyes
      3/24/16 3:06pm

      The “openness” is why he was sedating the women. The ER might be more open than other units, but patient privacy still needs to be protected. All he needed were closed privacy curtains and patients who were barely conscious.

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      BrightEyestealstar
      3/24/16 3:09pm

      Precisely.

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    UltrasheerAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:54pm

    Several years ago, a woman in my hometown went in for her post - partum checkup. The doctor was quiet so she looked down and saw him masturbating to her exposed vagina. She screamed and the elderly Russian office staff women ran in and immediately began attacking him. He was arrested and went to jail. It was the same thing: he was well-respected, well-liked, had young children and a pretty wife, the perfect suburban family life. It just goes to show how easy it is for predators to build a nice, comfortable shield of respectability around themselves. Lord knows what he did before he got caught.

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      HobbylobbyistUltrasheer
      3/24/16 2:58pm

      I love that elderly Russian staff woman. Way to go Nonna!

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      ISpeakJiveUltrasheer
      3/24/16 3:04pm
      GIF

      I mean that seriously. What the actual fuck is wrong with people.

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:53pm

    Sheesh, you are really not letting up on us today with all these awful abuse stories, huh?

    I found this part of the NY Times profile particularly disturbing:

    He is bold and confident but also has a personal touch — a detail that catches one’s attention in retrospect.

    According to the article, he always places a hand on his patients — on an unblanketed ankle or a clammy cheek — even when he is not directly checking for clinical information.

    “The patients get something out of it,” Dr. Newman told Wired. “And the contact helps me understand them medically. If they’re warm, if they’re cold, if they’re nervous or jittery.”

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      deerlady83JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      3/24/16 2:59pm

      That is so creepy, now.

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      JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes heredeerlady83
      3/24/16 3:07pm

      I also took issue of the weird tone of throwing in that he had a nice wedding and moved to and upscale NJ suburb. I mean, how is that germaine to this story?

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    DarkTowerLateArrivalAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:53pm

    Every time this story comes up there is a parade of people saying it’s impossible for this to happen in an ER. Let’s wait and see if this ends that.

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      M3000PDarkTowerLateArrival
      3/24/16 3:04pm

      People are going here and there constantly in Emergency Depts; 24/7. It’s not a place you’d expect to be able to isolate someone (even the isolation bays are monitored).

      For this doctor to do what he did he must have been timing when a nurse would be expected back for an at-interval check on the patient.

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      thespotteddogM3000P
      3/24/16 3:08pm

      Not always tho. I mean, yeah ERs are busy but if a curtain is closed and you have a higher priority patient you’re focused on the higher priority patient. All these women were low priority in a triage system. They would not have been checked on as much as someone with chest pain.

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    dermeisterAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 3:26pm

    You may want to include his excuse for his semen winding up on the patient’s cheek: he had just masturbated in the lounge and it accidentally dripped on her.

    http://m.nydailynews.com/new-york/manha...

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      BrightEyesdermeister
      3/24/16 3:33pm

      That and the part where he blamed the nurses for the morphine “mix up” were just nauseating.

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      Sprochetedermeister
      3/24/16 3:33pm

      WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT PURELL AND HANDWASHING? Now I never want to see a doctor again, thinking he doesn’t know how to wash his hands.

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    BitchSwanAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:58pm

    Some of the comments from doctors on Reddit and other sites would leave you wondering where is that damn empathy physicians are supposed to have. For some reason they are willing to see this woman as a crazy, money grubbing, sociopath, bent on ruining his career for all sorts of spurious reasons; but won’t entertain the thought that maybe he isn’t as upstanding as he seemed.

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      HobbylobbyistBitchSwan
      3/24/16 3:04pm

      Which is especially awful considering ER doctors and nurses see rape patients every day.

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      RighteousIndignationBitchSwan
      3/24/16 3:17pm

      Honest to god it’s because no doctors want to think this could happen. It would require such degree of forethought (including bringing his own medication to the hospital to administer). Most doctors won’t even do intimate-area exams without a chaperone to avoid any semblance of impropriety. It is just so thoroughly disturbing that it’s so much easier to hope it didn’t actually happen.

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    assmonkeysaysI'mBRITNEY, BITCH!Anna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:53pm

    and potentially cause so much heartache and potentially destroy the career of a man who is likely innocent,

    Head exploding.

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      HerRoyalRednessassmonkeysaysI'mBRITNEY, BITCH!
      3/24/16 4:59pm

      The comments on that original post were equally gross.

      So many people convinced she was lying because according to them ERs are too busy for something like that to happen.

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      assmonkeysaysI'mBRITNEY, BITCH!HerRoyalRedness
      3/24/16 5:14pm

      I just can’t even with the internet today.

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    ThirdAmendmentManAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:51pm

    Another woman identifying herself as a former colleague of Newman’s suggested his accuser suffered from mental health issues.

    And we all know that women with mental health issues can’t be raped.

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      Space_RockerThirdAmendmentMan
      3/24/16 3:20pm

      Also... there’s more than one accuser. ALL of them had mental illness? Even if that is the case, it is certainly nEeEeEeEever the case that perps would prey on someone whose account might be discredited based on something like mental illness... certainly not.

      I can’t.

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      ThirdAmendmentManSpace_Rocker
      3/24/16 3:55pm

      I’m surprised they didn’t go with the “The other women just want to be part of a lawsuit” excuse.

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    dermeisterAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 3:22pm

    As a physician with several friends who know and have worked with this guy, let me just say that the entire emergency medicine community is at a total loss. This guy was top 3 in terms of powerful/influential EM docs. Truly staggering.

    I regret initially having some doubts at the first public accusation based on my own biases. Never again...

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      BrightEyesdermeister
      3/24/16 3:35pm

      For what it’s worth, it takes a big person to admit when they are wrong so I commend you for that.

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      ruggerbabe19dermeister
      3/24/16 4:01pm

      I appreciate this derm. Hopefully this will open some eyes to the fact that abusers don’t always look like abusers.

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    HobbylobbyistAnna Merlan
    3/24/16 2:51pm

    My first reaction was that I was glad there were four accusers because no one believes the first woman.

    My second reaction was to hate myself for being momentarily happy that this sicko did it to more than one person.

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