Lawyer: Pelvic Exam Pics Cost Hopkins $190 Million
Source: ABC/AP
Johns Hopkins Hospital has agreed to a $190 million settlement with more than 8,000 patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped women in the examining room with a pen-like camera he wore around his neck, lawyers said Monday.
Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in February 2013, days after an employee alerted hospital authorities about her suspicions. Ten days later, Levy committed suicide.
The agreement, announced Monday, is one of the largest settlements on record in the U.S. involving sexual misconduct by a physician.
It all but closes a case that never produced criminal charges but threatened the reputation of one of the world's leading medical institutions and, according to lawyers, traumatized thousands of women, even though their faces were not visible in the images and it could not be established with certainty which patients were recorded or how many.
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Too bad Scrubs isn't on TV anymore -- the good doctor could have gotten a new job writing episodes.
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