The Right to Proper Bedside Manner

Everyone has a right to go to the doctor without being sexually assaulted or harassed, even strippers. It’s sad that I have to write that sentence.

This website is primarily about misclassification matters, labor violations, preventing assault inside the workplace, and examining the players involved. However, sometimes things happen to me outside of the workplace that are so egregious I need to blog about them.

Strippers and other adult workers have the right to visit a doctor without experiencing stigma, bigotry, harassment and general stupidity that the civilian population often exhibits towards us. As an “out” stripper, I have had several negative experiences with care workers that I did not deserve. I have been sexually assaulted and harassed by medical workers, all female, after mentioning my job.

Carolyn McAlpin has been mentioned on this website before. She was a nurse practitioner in Illinois who I visited several years ago as a general check-up. When I mentioned that I am a dancer, she began accusing me of having sexual relations with customers and telling me about STD prevention. She then rapidly approached me and hoisted up my skirt without asking, and with no prior notification, to press on my abdomen. This was not a gynecological office visit, rather a GP office to check my blood pressure and overall health. Sometimes I fantasize about beating the shit out of her until she can no longer work with other patients. This event happened years ago and I still haven't completely recovered from it, and probably never will. Sometimes I think about it and am filled with rage. I googled her office and found that one of the doctors she was under has also been in trouble for sexual assault in the past. This was an office that Obamacare had me go to one year when I bought into the Affordable Care Act.

Teresa Marshall is a chiropractor in Mankato, Minnesota. After being rear-ended in a vehicle accident, I had to visit a chiropractor as part of my insurance claim, though I normally would never go to someone like that. Several years ago, that chiropractor was Teresa Marshall. Teresa made various disparaging comments about strippers during my visits to her office. She would obsessively ask me questions about what it was like being a stripper and tell me that I was probably more prone to getting diseases because I worked in an unsanitary environment. One day while I was laying face-down on her stupid adjustment bed, she smacked my ass, as a way to notify me that the appointment was over. I absolutely considered it sexual assault, and notified the local sexual assault survivors support group about it, which I was attending already.

I hate Teresa Marshall and would love nothing more than for her to have some terrible accident preventing her from practicing any more. After being sexually assaulted, I stopped seeing her and switched to a chiropractor named Carol Walters, also in Mankato. I had to continue going to a chiropractor due to the nature of my personal injury claim.

Carol Walters did not sexually assault me in the physical sense, rather it was her barrage of questions about the emotional aspect of being a stripper that left me very vulnerable and uncomfortable. Beyond attempting to find out information for my personal injury, Carol Walters would say things to me such as, “What was the most traumatizing experience you’ve ever had in a strip club working?” She would ask me personal, emotional questions that nobody wants to answer to a stranger in an enclosed space, and questions that had nothing to do with her treating my whiplash from my car accident.

I have had attorneys tell me that if I publicly commented on these experiences, I would be vulnerable to defamation suits. I don’t think I would be happier keeping silent about these things though, and I will not relent in terms of doxxing. I understand that asset protection plans are a great way to guard oneself.