The Region - News from Sept. 25, 1986

The former medical director at Tehachapi State Correctional Institute filed suit to regain his job, claiming his complaints about a doctor’s improper examinations of female job applicants led to his dismissal. Frederick J. Curlin said he was fired in 1983, shortly after he issued an order that the doctor, who had lost his license to practice in the private sector because of sexual harassment of female patients, be restricted to examinations of males. A medical technician present during the doctor’s examinations told Curlin “she had never seen a physician perform a vaginal or rectal exam in such an objectionable manner,� Curlin said in his lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. The state personnel board upheld Curlin’s dismissal after prison authorities submitted evidence that he did not disclose details of his past employment and an arrest in a child custody case on his job application.