Allegations that a pioneering infectious-disease expert accused of sexually abusing patients used Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach for what an attorney for the accusers has called a “sexual playground” have drawn the attention of two U.S. congressmen from Orange County who question whether any misconduct was the result of “systemic failures.”

Rep. Dave Min (D-Irvine) and Rep. Mike Levin (D-San Juan Capistrano), in a letter sent late last month to Robert Braithwaite, the president and chief executive officer of Hoag Hospital, wrote that the allegations against Dr. William Moore Thompson IV are “deeply troubling and represent a serious breach of the trust patients place in their healthcare providers. …

“Given that this hospital serves many of our constituents, our offices are requesting a de

See Full Page