‘They are failing their patients’: Survivors of NYC doctors accused of abuse demand institutional accountability
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20 years in prison. Prosecutors said he developed sophisticated techniques to carry out his abuse throughout his decades-long career. Paduch’s former patients have also said they alerted NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and Northwell Health, a hospital he worked at after Weill Cornell, as far back as 2011 about the doctor’s alleged abuse, and were largely dismissed, according to lawsuits filed on their behalf by attorneys at the firm PCVA PLLC.
“Northwell Health strives to provide the highest level of care to its patients, patients’ families and communities and we take these allegations very seriously,” Osborn said.“No patient who entrusts us with their care should ever experience such appalling behavior,” Smith said in a statement. “We continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement and are committed to maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.
According to the lawsuit, the hospital made no notes about the lineup in medical records, did not notify police and failed to suspend or terminate Cheng. Further, days after the hospital conducted the lineup, records indicate that he provided medical treatment to the patient while she was under sedation, according to the suit. Cheng continued to work until he was arrested in December of 2022, after another woman reported him to police.
prison time when he pleaded guilty to sexual abuse in state court in 2016. But Hoechstetter said the path to seeking institutional accountability is less clear. Columbia University has already reached two settlements involving 231 patients, totaling $236 million. In a letter to Attorney General Letitia James last week survivors of Hadden asked for an investigation into Columbia University’s role in concealing his crimes while he worked there.
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