A woman is speaking out after she filed a lawsuit claiming that a former specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston sexually assaulted her while she was seeking treatment.
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“My being here is not for vengeance. It is about taking a side so that those in power aannot continue to abuse under a guise of deception,” she continued.
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The doctor then performed medically unnecessary breast and gynecological examinations, which should not be done without someone else present, according to attorneys.
“This should never happen at a hospital. This should be impossible to happen. It should be impossible that a doctor is conducting gynecological examinations without a chaperone in the room,” Brian Perkins, an attorney with Peiffer Wolf and Justice Law Collaborative said. “Somehow the hospital has failed on multiple levels.”
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“He wasn’t performing MRIs on my bones and I was suffering in pain, but he was insisting upon continual gynecological exams,” she explained. “I questioned it because I thought maybe I imagined it.”
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On Sept. 5, Todd signed a voluntary agreement to not practice medicine, her attorneys said.
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“There is safety in numbers, and you can speak out,” she said. “You don’t need to be afraid to speak your truth. You deserve, not just my voice, but your own voice, and you have earned the right to be healed.”
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“He’s been practicing here for years,” Paula Bliss, another attorney with Peiffer Wolf said. “There’s no reason to believe that Brigham and Women didn’t have some sorts of red flags with respect to this physician.”
The lawsuit also names Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital, Mass General Brigham Community Physicians, Inc., and Charles River Medical Associates, P.C. as defendants.
Source: MassLive October 10 2023
