Larry Nassar might be in an Arizona prison but he is still making headlines across the country.
Monday, the Wall Street Journal printed an article about William Strampel, he was the dean of the osteopathic medical school from 2002 until he stepped down for medical reasons in 2017, he was also Larry Nassar's boss.
The Wall Street Journal is claiming that in the fall of 2016, Strampel told a group that included students and administrators from MSU, that he did not believe the female patients who alleged sexual abuse by Nassar. This was reported to have happened in a meeting in October 2016, two weeks after Nassar had been fired by Michigan State.
The Journal says that two people told them this, that they heard the comments and that they were present in the meeting.
These two people claim that the meeting wasn't about Larry Nassar and the sexual abuse complaints, but about a male student that had been suspended for allegations of an abusive relationship with a female student, according to the Journal.
The newspaper printed this quote from Strampel: “This just goes to show that none of you learned the most basic lesson in medicine, medicine 101, that you should have learned in your first week: don’t trust your patients,” Dr. Strampel is quoted saying. “Patients lie to get doctors in trouble. And we’re seeing that right now in the news with this Nassar stuff. I don’t think any of these women were actually assaulted by Larry, but Larry didn’t learn that lesson and didn’t have a chaperone in the room, so now they see an opening and they can take advantage of him.”
