Doctor ‘used telephone to movie ladies’s privates and banned husbands from appointments’
A doctor has been accused of filming women’s intimate areas while performing examinations on them, allegedly also banning their partners from the room so they were “vulnerable”.
A US Army gynaecologist, who used to work at Tripler Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, is being sued for allegedly taking secret videos of his patients. Doctor Blaine McGraw has been accused of secretly videotaping patients during intimate examinations.
The doctor has been suspended pending a police investigation. The Cobos Law Firm filed a civil lawsuit this week on behalf of an anonymous woman claiming to be one of the victims.
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It states that complaints against McGraw began at Tripler in 2019. However, it adds Army leadership allegedly “dismissed the warnings, laughed off credible allegations, and allowed McGraw to continue practicing”.
The petition claims McGraw’s alleged conduct was “not an isolated incident but part of a known pattern”.
The law firm says more women have come forward, claiming they had similar experiences with Tripler. Attorney Andrew Cobos said: “We have victims who gave us statements who say they asked for their husbands to be in the room with them during the appointment, and the Army turned them down.
“They said, ‘No, your husband is going to have to wait in the waiting room during this procedure’. They were left alone with Dr. McGraw to be vulnerable.”
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One of the alleged victims filed a complaint stating McGraw recorded her pelvic examination on his mobile phone. Mr Cobos said: “This petition alleges a catastrophic failure of leadership that allowed a predator to operate with impunity inside a military hospital.
“These women were not just failed by a single doctor; they were failed by the very institution sworn to protect them.”
McGraw is said to have moved to Texas to begin practising at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center. The lawsuit claims the complaints continued during his tenure here.
A criminal investigation is ongoing. Tripler Medical Center and the US Army have been approached for comment.
