Weill Cornell Medicine is paying over $1 billion in civil suits to the victims of former Long Island urologist Darius Paduch.
The new agreement addresses serious control failures that enabled patient abuse, according to the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“As the public has seen time and again, when medical institutions fail to implement and enforce robust safeguards to protect patients from sexual abuse, victims suffer unspeakable harms, and the public trust in the doctor-patient relationship is undermined,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Today’s agreement sends a strong, clear message to all healthcare institutions: patient sexual abuse should never happen in our healthcare system, and institutions must devote the necessary resources to build and continuously monitor and improve programs that detect, report, and prevent sexual abuse—without exception.”…