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dalton99a

(93,413 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:21 PM 11 hrs ago

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His 'Girls'

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/jeffrey-epstein-doctors.html

https://archive.ph/xpJEb

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’
A small stable of doctors gave V.I.P. medical services to the sex offender and the women around him. Some doctors bent or broke the ethical rules of their profession.
By David A. Fahrenthold, Azeen Ghorayshi and Maggie Astor
Published Feb. 28, 2026 Updated March 1, 2026, 7:42 a.m. ET

A plastic surgeon from Mount Sinai closed a young woman’s head wound with 35 stitches on Jeffrey Epstein’s dining room table.

An internist in West Palm Beach ordered a blood test for another woman, then reported the abnormal results back to Mr. Epstein.

A dentist at Columbia University asked Mr. Epstein how much work he wanted done on a “girl” with severe tooth decay.

These providers were part of a small stable of loyal medical specialists cultivated and rewarded by Mr. Epstein, the convicted sex offender and financier who died in a jail cell in 2019. He often tapped their expertise for his own ailments, firing off questions about his bad back, high cholesterol and erectile dysfunction drugs. Sometimes, he connected them with his powerful friends in business and politics, even arranging one lawyer’s mammogram.

But Mr. Epstein also used the doctors to manipulate young women from overseas who were having sex with him, according to a tranche of Epstein-related documents released by the government in January.

He directed women to get pelvic exams, liposuction and mole removals, and paid for a range of specialty treatments, from $800-an-hour psychiatric therapy to a root canal. Sometimes, he abruptly cut off the women’s care: An assistant once forwarded him a plea from a woman asking for $600 to refill her prescription for acne medicine. “Ignore,” Mr. Epstein replied.

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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His 'Girls' (Original Post) dalton99a 11 hrs ago OP
Those doctors should lose their licenses UpInArms 11 hrs ago #1
There are a lot of witnesses and people Tree Lady 11 hrs ago #2
But some have NJCher 7 hrs ago #10
I guess they took the Hypocrites oath... sheshe2 10 hrs ago #3
Sometimes i beleve they took a Hypocratic Oath. czarjak 9 hrs ago #7
nyt, why is "girls" in quotes, since many of his victims were, in fact, GIRLS? niyad 10 hrs ago #4
Wasn't there a photo of a dentist's chair and exam room with creepy masks BigmanPigman 10 hrs ago #5
No mention of treating them for "syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or 'vaginal tearing' " Jack Valentino 10 hrs ago #6
The article actually has a section on STDs. dalton99a 9 hrs ago #9
It's totally normal for some guy BaronChocula 9 hrs ago #8
Peter Attia hamsterjill 6 hrs ago #11

UpInArms

(54,657 posts)
1. Those doctors should lose their licenses
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:30 PM
11 hrs ago

and face criminal charges for aiding and abetting

They knew better

Tree Lady

(13,203 posts)
2. There are a lot of witnesses and people
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:59 PM
11 hrs ago

Who have information they haven't shared because of fear, shame, NDA, etc.

From cooks and housekeepers to secretaries, office personnel, pilots, stewardesses, lawyers, people who visited the island.

Hair stylists, on and on there are many many people who have knowledge and have not come forward. Maybe they were threatened.

Doctors, nurses also. Dentists, etc.

NJCher

(42,934 posts)
10. But some have
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 02:32 AM
7 hrs ago

Shared their experiences. I read one by a guy who did lawn work for Epstein.. He also did miscellaneous jobs such as picking up girls from the airport in Epstein‘s vehicles. These girls thought they were going to be models. Little did they know.

In this case, the person acknowledged that he knew what was going on.

sheshe2

(96,991 posts)
3. I guess they took the Hypocrites oath...
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:33 PM
10 hrs ago

Instead of the Hippocratic Oath.

The Hippocratic Oath is an oath of ethics historically taken by physicians. It is one of the most widely known of Greek medical texts. In its original form, it requires a new physician to swear, by a number of healing gods, to uphold specific ethical standards. The oath is the earliest expression of medical ethics in the Western world, establishing several principles of medical ethics which remain of paramount significance today. These include the principles of medical confidentiality and non-maleficence. As the foundational expression of certain principles that continue to guide and inform medical practice, the ancient text is of more than historic and symbolic value. It is enshrined in the legal statutes of various jurisdictions, such that violations of the oath may carry criminal or other liability beyond the oath's symbolic nature.


More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

niyad

(131,423 posts)
4. nyt, why is "girls" in quotes, since many of his victims were, in fact, GIRLS?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:39 PM
10 hrs ago

Not "young women". GIRLS!!!

BigmanPigman

(54,941 posts)
5. Wasn't there a photo of a dentist's chair and exam room with creepy masks
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:41 PM
10 hrs ago

on the walls at one of his homes?

Jack Valentino

(4,822 posts)
6. No mention of treating them for "syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or 'vaginal tearing' "
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:56 PM
10 hrs ago

I didn't actually read the article link, but those things seem 'likely suspects' to me....


BaronChocula

(4,362 posts)
8. It's totally normal for some guy
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:53 AM
9 hrs ago

to seek medical treatment for girls who aren't his daughter. Imagine finding out your doctor or dentist was one of these creeps. You'll have to imagine it because so far, no one is being named.

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