A Prominent Manhattan Doctor Is Accused of Sexual Assault

He replied to an e mail saying she wished solely a friendship with a string of messages, demanding to know the way she might be so sure and accusing her of spurning his love as a result of she was immature and cowardly.

Ms. Wesko responded much less typically and extra tersely. However over the subsequent few years, she began experiencing extreme, unexplained ache, she mentioned, was repeatedly taken to emergency rooms. She couldn’t find a physician capable of deal with her situation, she mentioned, and in desperation she emailed Dr. Cahill in 2018 to ask if he knew of a great doctor in Colorado, the place she was dwelling.

She ultimately obtained a prognosis of endometriosis that required a selected form of surgical procedure. Specialists have been situated in New York, at Lenox Hill Hospital, and Dr. Cahill organized for them to take her case. “He jumped in and took over every thing,” she mentioned.

Her well being plan wouldn’t cowl procedures accomplished out of state, so Dr. Cahill organized for each the hospital and the surgeons to waive their charges. However he insisted that Ms. Wesko come to him for 2 preoperative exams.

When Ms. Wesko objected to an examination on Jan. 30, 2019, in line with her lawsuit, “Dr. Cahill insisted that as her referring doctor he wanted to finish it. The implication was clear: She wanted to satisfy Dr. Cahill’s demand or else she wouldn’t be capable of obtain the surgical procedure that he had organized and that she desperately wanted.”

Throughout that examination and a subsequent one, Dr. Cahill once more penetrated her anally, and through the second examination, Dr. Cahill fondled her breasts, ripped open her paper robe, touched her abdomen and pelvic space, and kissed her on the mouth, in line with Ms. Wesko’s lawsuit.

There was no nurse or chaperone within the examination room, as is commonplace in most docs’ places of work, she mentioned.