A state board revoked the license of a former U.S. Army doctor on Friday, finding that he plied students with hypnotic drugs during battlefield-trauma training and performed dangerous procedures, including intentionally inducing shock.
The doctor, John Henry Hagmann, was cited for training he provided in 2012 and 2013 in Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado and Great Britain. Students testified on Friday that Hagmann also performed penile nerve blocks and instructed them to insert catheters into one another’s genitals.
“The evidence is so overwhelming and so bizarre as to almost shock the conscience of a prosecutor who’s been doing this for 26 years,” Assistant Attorney General Frank Pedrotty told the Virginia Board of Medicine.
Two students provided the board with pictures of chest scars they received when procedures went awry. Three students testified that others became violently ill or began hallucinating after Hagmann gave them ketamine.
“What we’re seeing is way off the charts,” said board chair Kevin O’Connor. “Quite honestly, I’m speechless.”
Hagmann, who did not appear at Friday’s hearing, has told Reuters that he did nothing wrong. Hagmann can appeal but could not be reached for comment afterward.
“This is so abhorrent and abnormal,” testified John Prescott, chief academic officer, Association of American Medical Colleges. “In a combat setting, I have a hard time – I mean, there’s no indication you would ever need a penile block, ever.”
Reuters reported on Wednesday that military officials had long known about Hagmann’s methods. A four-star general briefly halted them in 2005, but the doctor resumed his government contracts, earning at least $10.5 million since then.
Two male students testified on Friday about private rectal exams. One said that he gave Hagmann an exam that the doctor filmed. The other described regret that he allowed Hagmann to perform a rectal exam on him.
“I can’t imagine a worse violation of trust,” said the student, whose name, like other trainees who testified, was shielded from the public. “There’s no excuse for the way this course was run.”
Colonel Neil Page, who investigated the matter for the Uniformed Service University for the Health Sciences, the military medical school, testified that Hagmann’s defense that the students volunteered for procedures is irrelevant because they were intoxicated.
“There was a line that was crossed,” Page said.
(Reporting by John Shiffman; Editing by Sandra Maler)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/20/us-usa-doctor-hearing-idUSKBN0OZ2H520150620
“Hagmann, who did not appear at Friday’s hearing, has told Reuters that he did nothing wrong.”
Yes, we have a big problem with people in our government not knowing the difference between right and wrong, and that fact makes drastic measures necessary.
No conscience, no remorse, and absolutely no empathy for the victim. That’s a common clinical definition of psychotic behavior.
The “private rectal exams” are something people should expect from a military that promotes people to higher-ranking positions based on their homosexual activities.
Sometimes, somethings have a tendency to piss me off. I mean really EFFIN PISS ME OFF!! This is one of them. This disgusting, psychotic FREAK needs a life block!!! Makes me sick!
Sorry. Lost control there in the moment……Thank you for posting Angel-NYC
Agree with you completely. When I read the story last night, I was livid.
Check out this one:
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/nation/3770134-military-knew-about-bizarre-methods-doctor-hired-train-troops
I don’t know how I missed this one on June 8th:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/08/us-usa-doctor-probe-idUSKBN0OO2E720150608
Thank you. I saved the 2 for later to read. At a quick glance while saving I noticed this FREAK Hagmann name. Too nice out today to mix in this POS!!! }:^(
here we go again with the, were shocked bit.
the courts declare being shocked but never by their own doings.
they pretend to hate what the very system perpetuates on a daily basis.
americans have an unnatural addiction to their stuff and unfortunately use the bible and the courts to justify it.
don’t get me started on people who wield power and get upset over the smallest of things like loud music during the day that they wouldn’t even had heard were they not standing outside and threatening to call the cops.
i’m pretty much over them and anything that resembles justice.
americans have so lost their way as their rooting for their own fellow
americans demise in the prison system.
“Students testified on Friday that Hagmann also performed penile nerve blocks and instructed them to insert catheters into one another’s genitals.”
Sounds like he missed his true calling.
Should have been a Catholic priest.