Dr. Steven Dingle. Continued, dateline 2017.

This is a repost of a 2015 article reporting the history of Arizona State Hospital's long time Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Steven Dingle. Given the increasing national attention specific to sexual abuse and assaults on women, and the associated factor of abuse of power, I would ask that Dingle's superiors take into account that this highly entrusted state employee, and a licensed doctor at that, stands as only one more example of the abject details in this context. A man who, on the basis of his authority over his staff, sexually assaulted a female medical student, causing trauma to the extent that the woman removed herself from the related medical program for an unknown period of time. 

As said, I would ask that Arizona Department of Health director Dr. Cara Christ, and her associate underling, Dr. Aaron Bowen, who for the last three years has acted as Arizona State Hospital's executive officer, get Dingle the hell out of the public health care system in Arizona. Anything less will only stand as how and why these sorts of people get away with the shit that only now is becoming readily apparent to the American people. To allow Dingle to avoid meaningful accountability proves the complicity of Arizona's most trusted health care officials when it comes to the ugly history of ASH, as it still stands today.    

Of Dr. Steven Dingle, cont. (2015) Who was found guilty of grossly unlawful sexual misconduct in April, 1997. This relates to a period of time when he was working in a private Phoenix area hospital, prior to becoming a member of the psychiatric staff in Arizona's sole long term public mental facility, The Arizona State Hospital (ASH). Determined as being guilty by the AZ Board of Medical Examiners of sexual abuse/harassment while working "on the clock" as a medical doctor. These are the kind of people we are talking about.  

To review the full text, produced by the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners, see the  following website. It's pretty disturbing, the data contained therein, reflecting this doctor's highly questionable character. No only did Dingle engage in outright sexual abuse of persons training under his supervision, this misbehavior created enough trauma that at least one of his victims had to resign her position as a doctor in training under this man's authority. It's that bad.

http://psychsearch.net/psychs/az/5081997.pdf

In sum, on numerous occasions between 1994 and 1996, Dr. Steven Dingle- who is today the Chief Medical Officer at ASH- did willfully violate state and federal law specific to his role as a practicing medical doctor, as per the findings of the AZ Board of Medical Examiners, and as dictated by ARS $32-1401(15), and ARS $32-1401(25)ii. Sexual abuse/harassment personified. Blatant manhandling of female residents (physicians in training) under his supervision at the time. 

Utter abuse of power in a context of sexual deviance. Bottom line. 

Given the evidence specific to sexual abuse and other like deviance occurring at ASH while Dingle has served (the public interest) as the Hospital's chief medical officer, I contend that this newest data about the man puts Dingle on a par with former ASH security guard Roger Allen Forney, who as we all know by now, was hired by ADHS in 2010 despite his prior convictions for sexual exploitation of minors (child porn- the man is a pervert through and through). In 2014, Forney was again busted for the same charge, sexual exploitation of children, while in fact employed and working at ASH; and he is now where most of these Rat bastards need to be: 

IN PRISON.

In terms of Dingle's history in this matter, sadly, but not surprisingly, he  was not subject to anything more than a standard letter of reprimand, despite the fact that his known conduct in this matter did occur in gross violation of law and policy. A virtual slap on the hand (we can thank the Arizona Board of Medical Examiners for that). And leading to his future at ASH, wherein Dr. Steven Dingle was most definitely complicit in administrative misconduct while persons such as former ASH executives Cory Nelson and Donna Noriega engaged in now proven malfeasance. 

There is simply no way that Dingle was unaware of the corruption occurring throughout the entirety of the ASH operation circa 2010-2015, for as the facility's Chief Medical Officer, it is Dingle who had the primary responsibility as a functioning ASH physician to ensure that his client-consumers (the ASH patient community) were being provided with optimum medical care.

And no surprise, either, that Dingle subsequently found safe haven for his highly questionable character in the Arizona Department of Health Services, working as he has for years as the Chief Medical Officer at Arizona's sole long term public mental health care facility, in relation to what many are characterizing as the deepest public mental health facility scandal in the new millennium, a position he still holds today. This, in graphic defiance of meaningful accountability with direct regard for his undeniable complicity in furthering well established (proven) corruption in the administrative offices at ASH, where he resides in his current position as the ASH CMO.

I couldn't make this stuff up if I had to. It's that bad.

Dingle has to go. Bottom line.

I will again implore ADHS's new director, Dr. Cara Christ, and ASH's current (for now) CEO, Dr. Aaron Bowen, to consider the implications specific to Dingle as they stand, with respect for known misconduct prior to working at ASH, and as they apply to what we all know about the egregious misconduct of ASH administrators circa 2010-2015. Anything less is tantamount to the wrongdoing that we all know about today with respect for the egregiously sickening mistreatment of ASH patients across the board.

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