Daniella Mohazab will never forget how, while watching her undress from the waist down, her gynecologist smiled.
A middle-aged man in khaki pants, George Tyndall, MD, didn’t leave the room after asking Daniella to remove her clothes. He stood there as she lay down on the exam table, then inserted two ungloved fingers into her vagina, feeling around for what felt like ages, pausing only to add lube. Dr. Tyndall explained that he was prepping her for an STI test, making it so the swab wouldn’t hurt when it entered her. Daniella, then 19, had never had a pelvic exam before. “It felt very sexual,” she says. “But I just assumed that’s how a normal gyno visit was done.”
She’d already gotten weird vibes from Dr. Tyndall 10 minutes earlier when, in his office, he told her that Filipina women like her were smart and good in bed. He’d also told her she was pretty. Still, he worked at her student health center at the University of Southern California (USC). Daniella trusted the school, so she thought she could trust him too.
THE INVISIBLE VICTIMS
It wasn’t until two years later, in May 2018, that the incident started to make sense. That’s when Daniella received an e-mail from USC: Dr. Tyndall had been accused of inappropriate behavior and had been fired. She’s now one of more than 100 women suing him and USC, alleging sexual battery and harassment. (Dr. Tyndall denies any wrongdoing.)
This story is from the January 2019 edition of Cosmopolitan.
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