Back home again in Indiana...

[STEVEHOLT]

I’m not giving him the benefit of the doubt. I don’t know the technical terms in the health field, but he is likely guilty of some version of negligence or malpractice. He probably shouldn’t have been practicing at all.

Goes beyond malpractice. Malpractice implies that you didn’t intentionally harm the patient rather you harmed them while attempting to perform a necessary duty to the patient and this harm was preventable had you not done something incorrectly.

These rectal exams weren’t mistakes. They served no purpose. Each exam was a criminal act in my opinion .

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

In a court of law, perhaps your argument holds. Maybe he wont be found guilty of a crime just for performing rectal exams on 20 year olds as a matter of course.

But if that happened to my kid ...

Every man knows kids dont need prostate exams, so of course every doctor knows it too. To give this guy the benefit of the doubt means assuming he happens to be the only doctor on earth who thinks kids need regular rectum exams, with no explanation or evidence. I just can't do it. It seems so much more probable that he's a pervert.

My kid would be out of that school immediately and I'd be calling an attorney.

It’s text book sexual abuse/assault. No reason to do it but for the perpetrator’s sexual pleasure.

 

[Ringostar57]