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PostPosted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:46 pm 
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SKOKIE | Aide allegedly called it 'sugar level' check

January 18, 2008

BY STEVE PATTERSON Staff Reporter spatterson@suntimes.com

Roman Tesfaye went to a Skokie clinic in July 2007 for the first eye exam of her life.

Instead, she claims, a doctor's assistant licked her toes as part of what he said was an effort to check her "sugar level."

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A woman filed suit against a Skokie eye doctor and the doctor's former assistant, Joseph Vernell, inset, alleging the assistant licked her toes during an eye-exam.

Now, the Uptown woman is suing Dr. Tamara Wyse, the Myers-Wyse Center for the Eye and Wyse's assistant, Joseph Vernell Jr., for the humiliation and anguish Tesfaye claims she endured.

Vernell, 39, was criminally charged and pleaded guilty after the incident, while Wyse said her office fired him and "strengthened our administrative controls to prevent a similar occurrence" after "the unfortunate event."

"We are very sorry for what happened to Ms. Tesfaye," she said.

Tesfaye, 36, couldn't be reached, and her attorney declined comment.

Tesfaye claims in the suit that when Vernell came into the exam room, he said he had to perform "a strip test" which involved him placing a strip in her eyes, after which she had to keep her eyes closed for five to seven minutes.

But she felt something touching her toes and opened her eyes to find Vernell stand up and pull his shirt down.

"Did you just lick my toes? You licked my toes," she recalls saying to him, according to her suit. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I was checking your sugar level," he reportedly replied.

Vernell, of Forest Park, could not be reached. He is now on probation.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/7469 ... 18.article

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What a weirdo! I was in the hospital all last week and had my blood sugar checked often (I am diabetic) but no one ever licked my toes to do it!

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What a weirdo! I was in the hospital all last week and had my blood sugar checked often (I am diabetic) but no one ever licked my toes to do it!

Bragging or Complaining?

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Just saying. :D

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Wow I never knew you could check your sugar that way. Maybe I should get my husband to start checking my sugar that way so I don't have sore fingers from poking them all the time!! :twisted:


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Amen. GO for it, hon! : :D

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