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You’re the director of a major hospital in Queens, NY and over an 8 year period you recieve numerous written and verbal complaints about one of your doctors. You ignore the complaints and allow the doctor to continue working at the hospital. That decision could cost the hospital $15 million. Actually, $7.5 million. A Queens, NY jury found both the doctor and the hospital equally liable. The nurse who brought the suit, Janet Blanco, says she suffered sexual torment at the hands of Dr. Matthew Miller for over 8 years. According to reports, Dr. Miller was openly lascivious, constantly telling dirty jokes and propositioning nurses. Blanco repeatedly complained to supervisors, but to no avail. The harassment allegedly became physical when on one occasion, Miller tried to “force his tongue” down her throat and on another groped her below the waist.
Hospital administrators shouldn’t have been surprised in light of the fact that in 1996 Dr. Miller was charged with having a 2 year sexual relationship with an alcoholic, female patient for whom he had prescribed anti-anxiety drugs. The board sanctioned the doc and put him on probation, but allowed him to remain on staff at the hospital. Now that same hospital plans to appeal this ruling. We hope they lose.
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