VA Nurse Loses Job For Manipulating Male Genitals During Physical Exams

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit rejected a Veterans Administration nurse’s challenge to his discharge for an unorthodox approach to diagnosing male genital warts in Riano v. McDonald, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 15097 (Aug. 17, 2016).

James Riano, who worked as a registered nurse for the VA in Milwaukee, had previously worked as a hospital corpsman in the Navy.  In 2004, he began working as an RN at the VA … <Read More>