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dalton99a

(93,427 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:21 PM 21 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 21 hrs ago OP
Those doctors should lose their licenses UpInArms 21 hrs ago #1
There are a lot of witnesses and people Tree Lady 20 hrs ago #2
But some have NJCher 17 hrs ago #10
I guess they took the Hypocrites oath... sheshe2 20 hrs ago #3
Sometimes i beleve they took a Hypocratic Oath. czarjak 19 hrs ago #7
nyt, why is "girls" in quotes, since many of his victims were, in fact, GIRLS? niyad 20 hrs ago #4
It's in quotes pattyloutwo 2 hrs ago #12
Wasn't there a photo of a dentist's chair and exam room with creepy masks BigmanPigman 20 hrs ago #5
No mention of treating them for "syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, or 'vaginal tearing' " Jack Valentino 19 hrs ago #6
The article actually has a section on STDs. dalton99a 18 hrs ago #9
It's totally normal for some guy BaronChocula 19 hrs ago #8
Peter Attia hamsterjill 16 hrs ago #11

UpInArms

(54,666 posts)
1. Those doctors should lose their licenses
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:30 PM
21 hrs ago

and face criminal charges for aiding and abetting

They knew better

Tree Lady

(13,205 posts)
2. There are a lot of witnesses and people
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:59 PM
20 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

(42,936 posts)
10. But some have
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 02:32 AM
17 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

(96,995 posts)
3. I guess they took the Hypocrites oath...
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:33 PM
20 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

(131,447 posts)
4. nyt, why is "girls" in quotes, since many of his victims were, in fact, GIRLS?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:39 PM
20 hrs ago

Not "young women". GIRLS!!!

pattyloutwo

(529 posts)
12. It's in quotes
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 05:33 PM
2 hrs ago

Because he called them “his girls.” I hated even typing that, disgusting

BigmanPigman

(54,953 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
20 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
19 hrs ago

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


BaronChocula

(4,363 posts)
8. It's totally normal for some guy
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:53 AM
19 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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