Dr. Olivet accuses an esteemed gynecologist of rape. However, when she loses her case, the DA's office resorts to a new strategy to bring the doctor to justice.Dr. Olivet accuses an esteemed gynecologist of rape. However, when she loses her case, the DA's office resorts to a new strategy to bring the doctor to justice.Dr. Olivet accuses an esteemed gynecologist of rape. However, when she loses her case, the DA's office resorts to a new strategy to bring the doctor to justice.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the following rape cases:
- The 1989 Young Soo Koo case. Soo Koo, a former Doctor and northwest Indiana gynecologist who once practiced in the south suburbs of Chicago until he was accused of injecting a woman with Valium on March 30, 1989, and then raping her while she lay on an examination table. After testimony from seven other patients who alleged that Koo engaged in improper sexual conduct with them, ranging from off-color remarks to sexual intercourse, he was found guilty of rape and sentenced to a maximum of 20-years in prison.
- The 1982 Ivan C. Namihas case. Namihas was a former doctor and Tustin gynecologist who was accused of about 50 instances of alleged sexual abuse of his patients and was the worst case of sexual abuse by a physician in California history. During his trial in 1982, it was discovered that he had sexual and medical misconduct dating all the way back to 1962.
- The 1989 Kimble McNair case. McNair was a formerly licensed physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology in the state of Nevada, In 1989 he was convicted of six counts of sexual assault and sentenced to four consecutive and two concurrent life sentences.
- GoofsSince Miriam Gregg is not a registered nurse she is either a LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) or a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant), so she should not be filling syringes or preparing any type of medication. Only doctors, certified physician assistants (PA-C), nurse practitioners (NP), pharmacists and registered nurses can prepare medications (prepare meaning measuring dosage like when filling a syringe or an IV bag, or mixing a oral solution). A LPN can administer a intravenous medication if it has been prepared by a physician, PA-C, NP, pharmacist or a RN and can start IV's but they cannot prepare medication and can only administer it under supervision. A CNA cannot handle medications or start IV's under any circumstances.
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Paul Robinette: [to Logan] Liz. Is she all right?
Mike Logan: She's a psychologist. If anybody's trained to handle it, she is.
Paul Robinette: Nobody trains you to be a victim.
- ConnectionsRemade as Law & Order: UK: Alesha (2009)
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While this episode arguably feels more personal due to the crimes being perpetrated on a member of the cast - in this case Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet - it still reeks of plot contrivances and exploitative storytelling.
This is not Law & Order at its most classy or compelling. Rather, it feels schlocky and scummy, like any other bad procedural; the moment when Olivet willingly goes back to the sadistic OB-GYN's office, knowing that he is going to rape her, is sickening. She records this encounter and it's later used in court as part of the episode's examination of what does or doesn't constitute entrapment.
Those of a certain political bent would likely be outraged if this episode was produced today, and they might be inclined to use that nebulous and increasingly common label of "problematic." But I think that regardless of political persuasion, there's an argument here that this episode is simply slimy in its treatment of rape and contrived in its plotting.
There are, admittedly, some creative choices made by the DA's office towards the end of the episode to finally bring the bad guy to justice by preying on Dr. Merritt's ego (he's played wickedly, yet hammily, by actor Paul Hecht). I loved Schiff's description of the judge: "The Honorable Keith Silver. Wrote the book on the rights of the accused. He thinks Miranda is 5 pages too short." And the portrayal of the doctor's other victims being shamed into silence does carry some weight. But the first half of the episode tainted it for me, and there are more creative "order" segments in other episodes.
Additionally, most episodes of Law & Order move at a roadrunner's pace; I knew something was off when this one spent an unusual amount of time lingering on the graphic rapes (2 of them) from Olivet's perspective. It was clearly done to give our male lawfighters more motivation to pursue the villainous doc later on, but whether or not that outweighs some of the questionable creative decisions here will have to be up to the viewer to decide. In my opinion, Law & Order can (and did) do so much better than this.
This is not Law & Order at its most classy or compelling. Rather, it feels schlocky and scummy, like any other bad procedural; the moment when Olivet willingly goes back to the sadistic OB-GYN's office, knowing that he is going to rape her, is sickening. She records this encounter and it's later used in court as part of the episode's examination of what does or doesn't constitute entrapment.
Those of a certain political bent would likely be outraged if this episode was produced today, and they might be inclined to use that nebulous and increasingly common label of "problematic." But I think that regardless of political persuasion, there's an argument here that this episode is simply slimy in its treatment of rape and contrived in its plotting.
There are, admittedly, some creative choices made by the DA's office towards the end of the episode to finally bring the bad guy to justice by preying on Dr. Merritt's ego (he's played wickedly, yet hammily, by actor Paul Hecht). I loved Schiff's description of the judge: "The Honorable Keith Silver. Wrote the book on the rights of the accused. He thinks Miranda is 5 pages too short." And the portrayal of the doctor's other victims being shamed into silence does carry some weight. But the first half of the episode tainted it for me, and there are more creative "order" segments in other episodes.
Additionally, most episodes of Law & Order move at a roadrunner's pace; I knew something was off when this one spent an unusual amount of time lingering on the graphic rapes (2 of them) from Olivet's perspective. It was clearly done to give our male lawfighters more motivation to pursue the villainous doc later on, but whether or not that outweighs some of the questionable creative decisions here will have to be up to the viewer to decide. In my opinion, Law & Order can (and did) do so much better than this.
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