Too true. In trying to explain to my in-laws why I couldn't learn/understand Korean very well, I would say correctly in Korean: "my ears are bad". That would be met by blank looks because "bad" apparently doesn't work both ways like it does for us; i.e. evil or not working.
You and Sprightly both missed the point. Unless there is evidence that the dear departed took secret photos of EVERYONE of his patients everytime they came to see him how are they going to prove that the photos( assuming all they show are genitals) belong to them?
No woman in her right mind would want this to happen to her. But when you file a lawsuit and ask for money damages you have to show YOU were harmed.
What you THINK means nothing as far as prevailing in a Court of Law. You have to PROVE you were one of the women that fiend photographed. That is the reason Schochor and the other vutures are trying to put pressure on Hopkins to quickly settle these cases. That and he also knows he is going to have a hell of a time making Hopkins legally responsible for the so called Doctor's actions unless he can prove Hopkins knew this was happening and did nothng about it.
This does not appear to be like the Catholic Church's actions with priests they knew were abusing children and instead of removing them from children just shuffled them off to a new Parish where they did the same thing.
To pretend that no patient should feel stressed or find it emotionally damaging unless they know for certain that their doctor~patient relationship had been violated in such an egregious way is ludicrous. And especially when it cannot not be easily determined how many and which patients were so grossly violated.
Whether or not it prevails in a court of law or not will be determined in a court of law.
So in your view of justice just because a woman was a patient of the Doctor she is entitled to money damages even if she was NOT one of the women photographed just because she may think she was? Not only that but entitled to money from Hopkins even if no one in a position of authority at Hopkins knew what was happening and had an opportunity to stop it?
Sure just have Hopkins insurance carrier write out a blank check to anyone who thinks they were harmed. Then they will raise their premiums on Hopkins and Hopkins will pass that increase on to their patients insurance companies and they will pass it on to you and me and everyone else who had nothing to do with this incident. Strange sense of justice.
So, now just how do the women go about proving they are the one's on the video? That is if the shots are only of lower body. Could be interesting in court!
What my view is ~ as you pointed out ~ doesn't matter because the courts will likely decide if it matters or not. I cannot imagine how they will determine which patients photos were taken. And not being able to positively ID the victims through images only weakens your argument, just as it would if the case involved gross violations of privacty in restrooms, dressing rooms, or any other place where a victim should reasonably feel safe from having their privacy and trust so horribly violated.
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