The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, in a sweeping national investigation, today reveals that many of the thousands of doctors who sexually abused patients have been allowed to continue practicing medicine, shielded by physician-dominated medical boards and other agencies that are supposed to discipline those who do wrong.
How do doctors get away with exploiting patients, sometimes for years? How prevalent is the problem of physician sexual abuse, given the lack of transparency by state governments and boards? What is the enduring damage to the patients who are abused? Why is the nationwide system for tracking offending doctors so ineffectual?
