Okay, the Easons weren't exactly the Huxtables. Okay, so they raise the term "dysfunctional family" to whole new levels. But did they at least manage to keep their personal pathologies from muddling their abortion business?
Richard Litt, who performed abortions at Dadeland until 1981, told the Miami Herald that he quit because the Easons wanted him to do too many abortions in a single work day, and wanted him to do abortions too late into the pregnancy. He also complained that somebody in the clinic stole his prescription forms and forged his signature in order to get narcotics in bulk. He found out about it, he said, when a state computer detected the unusual number of narcotics prescribed under his name. Litt said that he managed to prove that his signature had been forged, but he was still reprimanded by the state for allowing his prescription forms to fall into the wrong hands.
And what did Litt think of Dadeland? Litt said Dadeland "is a scum hole. I wouldn't send a dog there. They should be put in jail. (Miami Herald 9-17-89, 9-28-89)
When the Miami Herald did its investigative report on Dadeland, the reporter noted that Dadeland "lured clients with misleading ads, using more than three dozen names in the phone book." The report also noted that although other area clinics were having each physician do about 30 abortions a day, Dadeland was having a single doctor do as many as 60 abortions.
The report also found that one of Dadeland's alter-egos in the Yellow pages, "Eason's Abortion Access Center," claimed to be approved by an organization called "Women's Referral Group." The trouble was, "Women's Referral Group" was another of Dadeland's names.
Other allegations raised in the report included that Dadeland was reusing disposable instruments, that the doctors were leaving the facility while patients were still in recovery, that there were no nurses on staff, and that "Patient recovery was monitored by employees with no formal health-care training." Even though the doctors left the premises while the patients were still in recovery, the patient charts said, "Discharged by doctor." The article also said that the stirrups on the procedure tables were covered with blood, and that the oxygen mask had lipstick on it from the previous patient.
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