Bryce wrote: ↑Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:22 pm
I haven't followed this story too closely as I don't have a dog in the hunt, but what exactly is the abuse Dr. Anderson is accused of?
Although it isn't current practice, but if I could sue every Doctor that put his finger up my ass over the years, I'd be retired on my own private island right now.
After Craig posted the link, I perused several of the first pages of the document (not sure I'll get through the whole thing). Here are some highlights:
"Over the course of his thirty-seven years as a University employee, Dr. Anderson
engaged in sexual misconduct with patients on countless occasions. Dr. Anderson’s misconduct
ranged from performing medically unnecessary hernia and rectal examinations on patients
seeking treatment for wholly unrelated issues, to manually stimulating male patients and causing
them to ejaculate, to quid pro quo arrangements in which he provided medical services in
exchange for sexual contact" (note: "quid pro quo" implies consensual, wouldn't it? Also, it appears that of the ~800 folks who filed statements that the "stimulating male patients" applies to 12 or less)
"In light of the one-on-one setting in
which Dr. Anderson’s misconduct occurred, the passage of time, the dearth of contemporaneous
medical records, and the fact that many patients and witnesses are no longer alive,
we could not
determine that particular incidents unfolded exactly as patients described them to us. But we
have no doubt based on the evidence available to us, including the first-hand accounts of his
patients, that Dr. Anderson engaged in a pervasive, decades-long, destructive pattern of sexual
misconduct." (note: I bolded that section)
"Yet no one in the Athletic Department appears to have recognized
what they
heard as indicative of abuse or initiated any inquiries into Dr. Anderson’s conduct." (note: I bolded that part, and again it leads me to wonder
exactly what folks were being told about what was happening or what the concerns abut the doctor were.)
There's a good few paragraphs on Easthope's involvement, and it appears that he admitted knowing something was going on, to the extent that he thought the info was worthy of firing Anderson and/or removing him from contact with students, but he did neither. In fact, it appears he reassigned Anderson and gave him a raise.
"In the summer of 2020, we
stopped communicating with Dr. Anderson’s former patients for approximately six weeks
pursuant to a court order. When the order was lifted in August 2020,21 several patients with
whom we had previously scheduled interviews were no longer willing to speak with us." (note: Hmmmm, interesting. Wonder why the change?)
