Fabio Ortega is accused of abusing low-income and Spanish speaking patients. The health care system allegedly ignored complaints of misconduct for years.
A Chicago-area health care system allowed an obstetrician-gynecologist to continue practicing medicine unsupervised for more than a year while police investigated reports that he sexually assaulted two patients, a new lawsuit alleges. During that time, he allegedly abused at least six additional patients.
In an unsigned statement, Endeavor Health, which now owns the two health care systems and has nine hospitals in the area, said it could not comment on specific allegations because of patient privacy and the ongoing litigation. The statement added that it had “enhanced” its policies to make sure abuse or threatened abuse is reported and that it investigates all allegations of sexual assault that are reported.
This patient’s experience followed Ortega’s typical pattern of “examining” the patient’s breasts and using his fingers for a vaginal examination — rather than a speculum, according to Shinton, who interviewed the patient, who has thus far stayed anonymous in the legal case.Upon leaving the examination, the patient told Shinton she went to the front desk of the medical office and asked if that examination was normal.The front desk allegedly told her it was typical of his process and not to worry.
initially recognized Ortega’s actions as sexual assault. Roughly two months ago, she and Stinar, among others, began seeking out Ortega’sThe abuse began as early as 1989, the lawsuit claims, and included grooming, visiting or calling patients outside of work and asking intrusive questions about patients’ sex life while his fingers were in their vaginas or his hands on their breasts.
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