Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of sexual abuse. Doctors and other health care providers accused by patients of sexual misconduct kept practicing – sometimes for years – because of gaps in Illinois laws and a licensing agency that can be slow to take disciplinary action, a Tribune investigation has found. The providers went on to harm additional patients, in some cases, as .
When a woman came to the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute complaining of hip and groin pain, X-ray technician Karol Ruszczyk put his hand between her legs, touching her vaginal area over her clothes. At Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, nurse David Giurgiu had a heavily medicated, 76-year-old patient perform oral sex on him from her hospital bed. At Chicago’s Jackson Park Hospital and Medical .
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Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found well-known health systems allowed workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.
Over the course of a yearlong investigation, the Tribune found well-known health systems allowed workers accused of abusing patients to keep providing care.