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10.   Women need effective preventative measures from the medical community to ensure that we are not harmed when we are vulnerable.  The medical system relies on our trust.  We have the absolute right to safety from a predator while we are hospitalized.  Women need to be aware of the abuse to at least try to protect ourselves from medical sexual traumas. Hospitals are the ones that can and must STOP sexual assaults by their own personnel now. 

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9.  I reported my MD medical sexual abuser to multiple authorities with solid proof of other related unethical, wrongful and deceitful behaviors.  He was allowed to keep practicing medicine at the hospital and seeing women patients without a chaperone. I did my utmost to report him, but need other women to come forward with me to achieve justice.  There is strength in numbers.  Join me.

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8.   Medical predators are attracted to a patient’s vulnerability and the opportunity to abuse, rather than to the patient’s physical features.  I was not very 'attractive' because I was bruised, visibly injured, and unable to advocate for myself.  He assaulted me because I could not fight back.  Maybe he thought I would not remember him or could not read his name tag, but the truth is I cannot forget his face, name, hospital ID badge, or what he did to me.

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7.   Repeated self-reported studies indicate that about 10% of male medical providers, regardless of specialty, sexually abuse female patients.  Often these predators are prominent doctors, who misuse their status and privilege to take personal advantage of women. Surely they think they are above the law and the reputation will provide “cover.”  The Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO, which my hospital proudly advertizes as belonging to) lists hospital sexual assaults as a Top-10 high-frequency problem.

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6.   The vast majority of sexual assault victim-survivors do not report their assault, even though we know the identity of our attacker.  Often we are much too traumatized, humiliated, and angry.  We fear that a victim-unfriendly legal system will assault and retraumatize us again and again.  It’s called “strip and drag” and it is another way of blaming the victim and denying the truth.  Some hospitals are known to hire unethical contract defense lawyers to do this "dirty" re-victimization work for them.

Alternatively, perhaps we are told by police or prosecutors that we cannot prove our assault well enough to obtain justice (i.e., "beyond a reasonable doubt," which does not mean beyond a shadow of a doubt).  It is as if someone expects a video documentary of the assault, a detailed confession, or a slam-dunk criminal conviction guarantee. If only life were that ideal for us.  Thus, the vast majority of predators are never penalized.

The statistics are even worse when the sexual assault occurs under the guise of medicine — because society expects our doctors to be above that.  Moreover, women expect our hospitals to keep us safe, but they do not.  A doctor who sexually abuses women is the medical equivalent of a pedophile.  His acts are even easier to achieve (and conceal) than taking candy away from a baby.  Babies at least cry out; but women are silenced by sexual shame.  The reality is that some doctors do assault, and hospitals protect their deviant doctors again and again.  Do not expect any positive help from a hospital to protect the next woman.

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5.  In my personal quest to understand why I was assaulted by a (foreign educated, foreign national) doctor, I discovered that repeated studies around the world show that a significant percentage of otherwise normal males would assault at-will if guaranteed immunity from prosecution, which is almost the case now.

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4.  Studies show that about 33% of all women are sexually assaulted during their lifetimes.  If men were assaulted at such epidemic rates, there would be justifiable outrage, indignation, and concerted efforts to achieve effective protection for their bodies and minds.  Laws would change, including higher convictions and penalties for sex crimes.