An ob-gyn in #Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back.

source: https://magazine.atavist.com/damages-javaid-perwaiz-virginia-obgyn-surgeries-lawsuit/?src=longreads

More than a half dozen suits are still working their way through the legal system, including one filed by Layla, who’d let the #FBI record her phone call with Perwaiz. (She declined to be interviewed for this story on advice of her attorney.) But most of Perwaiz’s victims, of which there are likely hundreds, have been left without a clear path to restitution. The FBI designated a victim coordinator to connect former patients with mental health services and to communicate information about the investigation and trial to people requesting it. The bureau told potential victims that, as a first step in addressing any harm done to them, they could request their medical files from Perwaiz’s office.

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