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. . . Is an appalling POS . . . worse than even first thought. 
There's this:
And then this:
But now THIS:
Shortly after his first New Yorker story was published, a source familiar with the situation told me that Moonves was the anonymous subject of a recent article published this past May by Dr. Anne L. Peters in the Annals of Internal Medicine,under the headline “A Physician’s Place in the #MeToo Movement.” In her article, Peters recounted an incident with a patient from the past. “It happened many years ago in an examination room where I’d been asked to see a V.I.P. patient early in the morning before regular business hours,” she wrote. “I remember the early-morning light filtering through the blinds.” She and her patient sat at a small table as she conducted her initial interview. After that, when she and the patient moved to her examination table, “He grabbed me as I stepped forward,” Peters wrote. “He pulled himself against me and tried to force himself on me. He did this twice; when I rebuffed him, he stood beside the examination table and satisfied himself. After he finished, he reassembled himself and left.”
[...]
Peters, who states in her piece that her responsibility as a physician makes her “legally unable” to name the patient “who harassed me,” wrote that she was stunned and did not know what to do as her colleagues trickled in. “I felt ashamed,” she wrote. “I hadn’t screamed—I was supposed to be offering ‘extra-special’ service to this man because he was rich and powerful and good for my institution.” Although disoriented, she managed to figure out whom to call in the administration at the U.C.L.A. medical center. According to Peters’s account, she reported the incident. “I wanted a note placed in his chart warning other women never to be alone with him,” she continued. “What if the patient did the same thing to another woman? I needed to protect people more vulnerable than I was as an attending.” She recalled that “the person” who answered her call in the U.C.L.A. administration “explained my rights,” but also said that the patient had “more money for lawyers” than did U.C.L.A., and cautioned her “to refrain” from reporting the incident to the police “because I would lose in court.”
[...]
According to Peters’s article, the patient called Peters the next day to apologize. “He said that he had a terrible problem and that he had done the same thing with many other women,” she wrote. “That he basically couldn’t control himself when alone with a woman.” Peters wrote that she told the patient to get counseling immediately, and to never allow himself to be alone with a woman in a room. She never heard from him again. “
[...]
Peters, meanwhile, did not set out to be a face of the #MeToo movement. She was head of the clinical-diabetes program at Cedars-Sinai, in Los Angeles, before moving to U.C.L.A. She did her residency at Stanford. (She is now a Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Programs.) On several occasions, she has been named as one of the best doctors in the United States. But the wave of #MeToo reporting surrounding Harvey Weinstein catalyzed her decision to dredge up the nearly 19-year-old incident, which caused her, as she wrote, to “remember these events almost obsessively” and to have “many sleepless nights fretting about what to do.” She consulted with legal counsel and considered her role as a physician and as a public health advocate. “My purpose, as I see it,” she wrote, “is not to be the focus of a media storm by reporting my incident, but rather to help find a way forward.”
^^^ Women have put up with far too much for far too long.
There's this:
And then this:
But now THIS:
Shortly after his first New Yorker story was published, a source familiar with the situation told me that Moonves was the anonymous subject of a recent article published this past May by Dr. Anne L. Peters in the Annals of Internal Medicine,under the headline “A Physician’s Place in the #MeToo Movement.” In her article, Peters recounted an incident with a patient from the past. “It happened many years ago in an examination room where I’d been asked to see a V.I.P. patient early in the morning before regular business hours,” she wrote. “I remember the early-morning light filtering through the blinds.” She and her patient sat at a small table as she conducted her initial interview. After that, when she and the patient moved to her examination table, “He grabbed me as I stepped forward,” Peters wrote. “He pulled himself against me and tried to force himself on me. He did this twice; when I rebuffed him, he stood beside the examination table and satisfied himself. After he finished, he reassembled himself and left.”
[...]
Peters, who states in her piece that her responsibility as a physician makes her “legally unable” to name the patient “who harassed me,” wrote that she was stunned and did not know what to do as her colleagues trickled in. “I felt ashamed,” she wrote. “I hadn’t screamed—I was supposed to be offering ‘extra-special’ service to this man because he was rich and powerful and good for my institution.” Although disoriented, she managed to figure out whom to call in the administration at the U.C.L.A. medical center. According to Peters’s account, she reported the incident. “I wanted a note placed in his chart warning other women never to be alone with him,” she continued. “What if the patient did the same thing to another woman? I needed to protect people more vulnerable than I was as an attending.” She recalled that “the person” who answered her call in the U.C.L.A. administration “explained my rights,” but also said that the patient had “more money for lawyers” than did U.C.L.A., and cautioned her “to refrain” from reporting the incident to the police “because I would lose in court.”
[...]
According to Peters’s article, the patient called Peters the next day to apologize. “He said that he had a terrible problem and that he had done the same thing with many other women,” she wrote. “That he basically couldn’t control himself when alone with a woman.” Peters wrote that she told the patient to get counseling immediately, and to never allow himself to be alone with a woman in a room. She never heard from him again. “
[...]
Peters, meanwhile, did not set out to be a face of the #MeToo movement. She was head of the clinical-diabetes program at Cedars-Sinai, in Los Angeles, before moving to U.C.L.A. She did her residency at Stanford. (She is now a Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Director of the USC Clinical Diabetes Programs.) On several occasions, she has been named as one of the best doctors in the United States. But the wave of #MeToo reporting surrounding Harvey Weinstein catalyzed her decision to dredge up the nearly 19-year-old incident, which caused her, as she wrote, to “remember these events almost obsessively” and to have “many sleepless nights fretting about what to do.” She consulted with legal counsel and considered her role as a physician and as a public health advocate. “My purpose, as I see it,” she wrote, “is not to be the focus of a media storm by reporting my incident, but rather to help find a way forward.”
^^^ Women have put up with far too much for far too long.
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