Anybody use this surgeon in PA?

wendy_fou
on 4/18/11 9:34 pm - AR
Came across this from a few days ago & figured I'd ask.  Holy crap! 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110412/ap_on_re_us/pa_doctor_assault_allegations

Pa. weight-loss doc charged with assaulting women

Tue Apr 12, 3:16 pm ET

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – A suburban Philadelphia weight-loss doctor touched six patients inappropriately and told at least one that having sex with him would help her lose unwanted pounds, authorities said in charging the physician with indecent assault.

Arie Oren, 64, of Narberth, made unwanted sexual advances on patients at the Conshohocken Weight Control clinic, authorities said. He was released on $100,000 bail following his arrest Monday on multiple counts of aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault. Phone messages left Tuesday by The Associated Press at a home listing for Oren and at his office weren't immediately returned. His attorney didn't immediately return a request for comment.

Between September and December 2010, multiple female patients reported to police that they had been inappropriately touched by Oren during their weight loss sessions, Montgomery County prosecutors said. Oren often masked his advances as "fat-burning massages," authorities said.

"For a woman to go to a doctor like this for help with weight loss, which is such a personal matter, and then have the doctor touch her sexually, try to kiss her, make such personal comments, that is just a complete betrayal of what a doctor is supposed to be doing," Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said at a news conference, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Oren has been in trouble with the law before. In the mid-1990s, he pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and was sentenced to two years in prison and three years' probation and ordered to pay $272,000 in restitution, according to court records.

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