NYC doctor accused of sexually abusing 2 female patients

Sources say that the first victim, 29, had been given a dose of morphine by nurses before Newman came to check on her. She alleged that he then gave her an additional dose and she lost consciousness but could hear him moving her gurney to another area. Newman then groped her and ejaculated on her, according to the Daily News.

A top-ranked doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital has been charged by police with two counts of sexual assault after masturbating on several female patients in his care, the NYPD said.

A second woman is now believed to have come forward to accuse Dr Newman, 45, of sexual assault, the Daily News reported. The woman, 22, had gone to the emergency room with a cold around 6 p.m. September 21 when, she told investigators, Newman groped her breasts, according to a criminal complaint.

‘I’m going to give you a shot of morphine, ‘ the doctor told her, according to the sources.

Newman snowed no emotion Tuesday when he walked into the NYPD Special Victims squad in Harlem with possibly his attorney, and did not speak with reporters from the Daily News and elsewhere waiting outside for his arrival. As she moved in and out of grogginess, she said Newman moved the examination bed and began to masturbate over her, wiped her with a blanket and moved the bed back to its original position.

The woman said she had already been given morphine, but then felt a burning sensation in her arm.

Newman’s lawyer, John Wing, told NBC that Newman turned himself into police and volunteered a DNA sample.

“This is a matter under investigation and we are fully cooperating with the appropriate authorities”.

Hospital officials released a statement saying, “We take the nature of these allegations very seriously and continue to conduct our own extensive internal inquiry”. The health and safety of our patients are our primary concern.

He blogged for the New York Times and the Huffington Post, and wrote a book – “Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine” – exploring “the underbelly of modern medicine and the fraying of the patient-doctor bond”.

The author page says that, in 2005, as a major in the Army Reserves, he was deployed to Iraq, where he received an Army Commendation Medal.

Some Mount Sinai employees were upset by the news.