Simona Jellinek was recently featured in CBC News, where she discusses the sexual abuse investigation involving Susanne Barrow, a former patient of SickKids, who alleges she was sexually assaulted as a child in 1980 by former doctor Eleazar Noriega, a physician who worked at SickKids.
"When people go to a hospital, they assume that the hospital is going to be taking care of them, and if something goes wrong, it's the hospital that has to deal with it. But that's not true when it comes to doctors," said Jellinek, a Toronto lawyer specializing in civil litigation over sexual assault cases.
"There ought to be a whole huge overhaul of how the CMPA works, how hospitals work, how doctors work," said Jellinek, who argues hospitals and clinics should be vicariously liable when physicians commit sexual assaults within their premises.
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