doctor levine

Accusations of sex abuse trail doctor
The NY Times this morning lays out its investigation of the much-heralded pediatrician Melvin Levine, who developed a ground-breaking approach to teaching slow-learning kids. According to several patients over the yrs, Dr. Levine was also ground-breaking about assuring that his little patients' wee-wees were in working order, requiring parent-less, full-body physicals not just on the initial visit. There were earlier complaints, but because of Levine's star status, the hospitals just shrugged. Now, there are four lawsuits. New York Times