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Last month, in an American surgical first, doctors at the University of California, San Diego, removed the appendix of a 24-year-old patient through her vagina. Surgeons Santiago Horgan and Mark Talamini made a small incision in the wall of the patient's vagina, through which they passed surgical tools and a small camera to the appendix, removing the organ through the same incision. Surgeons also made a small cut in the bottom of the patient's bellybutton and inserted another camera through it to help guide surgery. The procedure took 50 minutes from start to finish, 20 minutes...
...September of 1993, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine received a complaint for unprofessional conduct, sexual misconduct, and patient abuse from another of Levine’s former patients...
...patient alleged that on two separate occasions, Levine “placed his hand on [the patient’s] penis, and bounced it from side to side, and up and down...
...According to the statement filed with the complaint, Levine demanded repeatedly that the patient, who was entering puberty at the time, tell him about his wet dreams...
...According to a press statement from the hospital, there were no complaints brought against Levine by any patient or parent of any patient “suggesting inappropriate conduct of any nature” during his time there...