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	• Doc Jack Olsen Dell, 1990 - 560 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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True Crime Lovers will Salivate! Horrifying!

DOC is one of the most horrifying true stories of the abuse of power and trust that I have ever read! Dr. John Story chose to build a family practice in the small Wyoming town of Lovell, where there were no other doctors available and where half the population were fundamentalist members of the LDS or Mormon church. Known for his concern for his patients and strong morals rooted in the Baptist religion, Dr. Story was also known by many women as a doctor who ordered frequent pelvic exams that often lasted 30-45 minutes or longer. Preying upon the vulnerability of a population of women that possessed little sexual knowledge or experience, Dr. Story began raping his female patients. He never allowed a nurse or another third party to be present in the examining room during these pelvic exams, most of which were performed on Mormon women or women who used his clinic for a single visit while passing through town. In this way, he assurred himself years of unrestricted access to female patients who would be unilikely to understand what was happening or too afraid to report the sexual assault.

When two brave sisters united in an effort to alert the Wyoming Board of Medical Examiners to this abuse of position and power, many more women began to come forward. By the time police investigators and the district attorney were ready to bring Dr. Story to trial, there were 50 confirmed victims of sexual abuse or sexual assault, and another 50 cases involving women who were willing to speak of their experiences but were unwilling to be involved in any legal proceedings. If this sounds almost unbelievable, consider that these were ONLY the women who came forward!

The Wyoming Board of Medical Examiners denied ever receiving complaints about Dr. Story prior to those filed in 1983. However, one women produced a copy of the letter she mailed to the board in 1972. Another woman stated that she notified the board of the sexual abuse of her daughter well before 1983. In addition, the Board of Medical Examiners also refused to review this case until there were at least 5 separate complaintants. (Apparently, one rape victim is permissable, but 5 rape victims... well, that could be a problem!)

Although his license was revoked, Dr. Story was allowed to continue to practice during the appeals process and continued to practice until he was arrested and convicted on sexual abuse and sexual assault charges in a court of law. Never at a loss for words, Dr. Story continued to proclaim his innocence from prison and those who supported him continued to believe that such a "good and moral man" was incapable of these atrocious crimes.

It is interesting that some of the defense theories presented were outrageous and would have required absolute idiocy to accept. If Dr. Story were the unfortunate victim of a "Mormon Conspiracy," would not every non-Mormon professional also have been targeted? No one was targeted for punishment other than Dr. John Story. The defense also claimed that it would be physically impossible to rape a woman who was lying in a prone position on an examining table for a pelvic exam. My response to that? Like hell it would!

Story did go to prison, but his arrogance knows no bounds. With an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore, Story is a despicable man. Although a prison term of 15-25 years hardly seems adequate, I hope his "time" is spent less than comfortably. I hope Dr. Story was gang raped two or three times. I hope he was impotent during every conjugal visit with his long-suffering and naive wife. I hope no one ever called him "Doctor" again.

For those of you who have never read a Jack Olsen book, DOC is an excellent first choice. The daunting 542 pages read like a book of 250 and was never boring. It is unfortunate this spectacular book is no longer in print, for it is True Crime masterpiece!

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A Truth Telling LIttle Town

This is a book where my ancestors lived. This is a wake up to what is going on and how many people will pretend and do not wake up to what is really going on by professionals. They do not believe the victims and how many of us are really out there, keeping quiet? Give the victims a yahoo.

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Written with skill and compassion - a real winner!

Dr. John Story has been a general practitioner in Lovell, Wyoming for decades. The little town's one industry is its sugar factory, and its social life doesn't just center in its churches; its churches quite literally are Lovell's social life, so being put out of one's fellowship must be avoided at any cost. Many of the local residents are Baptists, the fundamentalist kind, like Elder Story as he is also known. Many more are Mormons, including Arden McArthur. Almost from Story's arrival in town onward, rumors about him have circulated; but Arden has never listened, and has trained her children not to do so, either. Whenever she sees "Doctor" (he hates having his title shortened to "Doc," and hates being "first named" even worse), the two friends engage in friendly but passionate debates about their respective beliefs. Sure, Dr. Story gives a lot of pelvic exams (including to patients who come in for treatment of sore throats, for high school physicals, and suchlike). True, those exams drag on for hours sometimes, and there's never a nurse in the room. But Arden tells herself, and her daughters when they complain, that "Doctor" is just being thorough. They're lucky to have such a caring physician, who's saved countless lives over the years and who absolutely refuses to be hurried while he's with a patient.

There's another side to Dr. Story, but people who see it either learn not to talk about it or they move away. When the moment comes for Arden McArthur to realize her mistake, she finds herself up against her own church's hierarchy as well as just about everyone else in town. Or so it seems to her at first - but as Arden starts digging, the until now silent citizens of Lovell begin talking to her. The more she learns, the madder she gets. It sometimes seems like a fool's crusade, because being shunned by one's church in Lovell means social isolation. Eventually it gets downright dangerous, as Story's supporters - egged on by well-meaning but clueless religious and civic leaders - escalate from shunning to violent threats. As a trio of brave public officials investigate what sounds to them like a series of rapes, and Story goes on practicing while appealing the Medical Board's decision to revoke his license, women reared to submit themselves to male authority without question start realizing that they do have recourse. Women kept too ignorant of sexual matters to describe Story's actions in anything but the most euphemistic terms learn that denying what happened won't make it go away; and those who have kept silent for years join Arden McArthur in fury at realizing that their silence has allowed Story to victimize others who might have been warned. Through it all, Story maintains his innocence. When it finally comes to trial, the rape case splits Lovell apart; and afterward, as "Doctor" files his appeal, those who go on believing in him mount a defense that moves the case into national press limelight.

What could easily have become nothing more than another sensationalistic "true crime" book turns instead, thanks to author Jack Olsen's skilled storytelling, into one of the saddest and yet most hopeful human dramas I've ever read. Easy to live through with the victims? No. Of course not! But worth the discomfort? Absolutely. If ever a story proves the Biblical claim that "the truth will make you free," this one surely does.

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good book

When I started to read this book, I tough that is going to be boring, but, to my surprisse, I was not.

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For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him.

Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr. Story's office.

In riveting detail, veteran crime writer Jack Olsen tells the searing story of a small group of courageous women who decided to bring a doctor to justice -- and unearthed a legacy of pain and anger that would divide their families, their neighbors, and an entire town.

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