42 Men Complain of Sexual Abuse by Army Doctor

Two quick facts about America:

1. The federal government employs a lot of doctors. 
   
2. The federal government makes and enforces its own rules as it sees fit; nobody holds it directly accountable
   

One thing about going to a federal doctor:  you can't sue them for malpractice.  You basically just take what you get.

When you're in the military, they own you lock, stock, and barrel, the same way they own trucks and filing cabinets.  So if you don't like the medical care you got while on the DoD payroll, you're free to go fuck yourself.

The US military has made some efforts, with whatever degree of success, at improving its sexual assault problem.  They have a long, long way to go in my estimation.  For example, when they rolled out sexual harassment training, part of it was to mandate that the word "harassment" always be pronounced HAIR-us-ment rather than her-ASS-ment.  Because they know who they're dealing with.  Seriously, that's a thing.  That's the level they're working from.  People get not only raped, but have the shit beaten out of them in the barracks all the time.

Army Times:
"Stockin was immediately suspended from seeing patients when officials received the first reports, Lt. Col. Jennifer Bocanegra, a spokeswoman for the base, told Army Times in August. Since his suspension, Stockin has continued working administrative duties in a “non-clinical area” of the medical center."


I'm glad they curtailed Major Stockin's activities and I hope he goes to prison for a long time with the other serial rapists.  Me of little faith.

WSJ:

"RAPID CITY, S.D.—An Indian Health Service pediatrician who was convicted of sexually abusing young Native American boys in his care over two decades and became an emblem of the federal agency’s long-term failures was sentenced Monday to five lifetime prison terms.

Stanley Patrick Weber, 71, groomed and abused Native American boys as young as about 9 years old on reservations in Montana and South Dakota between 1995 and 2011, according to court documents. His supervisors in the federal government buried their own suspicions about his conduct, tried to silence others who raised concerns, and transferred the doctor from one reservation to another after managers concluded he might have molested his patients, The Wall Street Journal and the PBS series Frontline reported last year.
The agency’s handling of Weber revealed broader dysfunction at the U.S. agency that provides health care to 2.6 million Native Americans, often in some of the nation’s poorest and most remote communities. The Journal and Frontline later reported that the agency had hired dozens of doctors with track records of malpractice, licensure sanctions and even criminal convictions who went on to harm patients at IHS hospitals."  [emphasis added]