Those outside the emergency medicine community or the New York City medical community may not know much about David Newman, but he was one of the most respected names in the specialty- popular podcast, speaker at national meetings etc. That is, until his fall from grace over the last year.
http://nypost.com/2016/12/16/ex-doc-admits-to-sexually-assaulting-er-patients/
Obviously you can't insure against this sort of thing. Dr. Newman will never again practice medicine. But he'll be out of jail in two years. Then what? Where do you go from here? He's intelligent, talented, and reasonably young. What kind of work can you do when even a minimal Google background check is going to pull this up?
http://nypost.com/2016/12/16/ex-doc-admits-to-sexually-assaulting-er-patients/
“On Jan. 12, 2016, you subjected the complainant to sexual contact when she was incapable of giving consent,” Judge Michael Obus said in taking Newman’s plea. “Do you enter a plea of guilty on that charge?”
Newman responded “Yes.”
As part of the plea deal, Newman, a dad of two, additionally admitted he had groped the same woman during a previous visit. He also copped to groping the three other women in the summer and fall of 2015.
“I administered an unnecessary dose of Propofol [to one victim], causing [her] to be unable to speak or respond, leaving her unconscious and masturbating next to her,” Newman told the judge.
“On three other occasions, I unnecessarily touched the patients during treatment,” Newman added. “These compulsions twisted my brain, and I am so deeply sorry to all of these victims.”
Obviously you can't insure against this sort of thing. Dr. Newman will never again practice medicine. But he'll be out of jail in two years. Then what? Where do you go from here? He's intelligent, talented, and reasonably young. What kind of work can you do when even a minimal Google background check is going to pull this up?
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