Patients Reveal Horror Stories About 'Abusive' Utah OBGYN

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1. This case is eerily similar to another one I read about.

The book: "Doc": The Rape of the Town of Lovell by Jack Olsen, tells the story of Dr. John Story, who sexually abused women in the small town of Lovell, Wyoming for over 25 years, under the guise of performing pelvic exams.

As in this Daily Beast story, the town where he practiced was heavily Mormon, and most of his patients were sexually inexperienced and not well-informed as to what was appropriate to expect in a gynecological exam when they first came to him. And like the women in this news story, a lot of them were uncomfortable with some of the things that happened in his examining room but weren't sure if he'd actually done something wrong or if they were just overreacting. Like I said, eerily similar!

Story was not stopped and prosecuted until 1985, after a few woman started comparing notes with each other and putting two and two together. The book tells the whole story through the eyes of the women involved, and it is very well done. It's one of my favorite true crime books of all time, and I've read quite a few.

Olsen's book was published back in 1989, and went out of print for a while, but was reprinted in a paperback edition in 2014, which is currently available from Amazon. It's a creepy story about a very creepy man and definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I personally found it fascinating and riveting.

Both that story and this new one point to the dangers of keeping women naive and uninformed about matters related to sex and what is and is not okay for a doctor to do to a woman's body.