Fifty-nine former patients of a prominent staff physician have filed lawsuits alleging that a Connecticut hospital was negligent in failing to stop the man from molesting them, reported the Hartford Courant. The doctor quit in 1993 amidst accusations that he had been molesting and inappropriately photographing children for decades. State health authorities had received complaints of molestation in 1987, but did not pursue an investigation, reported the Courant. The physician was a former head of endocrinology. He had told the children, and some of their parents, that he was conducting a study on childhood growth.